Another complication is more than half of electricity needed for aluminium smelters comes from coal-fired power plants, according to McKinsey, making the sector one of the highest emitters and ...

Spanning over five years, the initiative aims to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from aluminum smelters. The project will be mostly conducted at Rio Tinto's facilities in Europe and Hydro's ...

Copper cathode production in January declined significantly as expected, mainly due to the following reasons: 1. For some smelters, the statistical period in January was from January 1 to January 25, ...

That whole ideology, seen now, amounts to a kind of bargain: That in exchange for fealty to basic liberal causes, and support for the Democratic Party, Silicon Valley titans would be pretty much ...

Silicon Motion is working on its first PCIe 6.0 SSD controller known as SM8466. This controller is part of the MonTitan series aimed at datacenters and enterprise-level applications. Announced by ...

But aluminium comes at a cost – energy. The four aluminium smelters in Australia consume 10% of the nation’s electricity and produce close to 5% of total emissions. Smelting is so energy ...

Image: REC Silicon The news that REC Silicon would be shutting down polysilicon production at its US manufacturing site in Moses Lake, Washington was an unpleasant New Years’ gift for much of ...

But aluminum comes at a cost—energy. The four aluminum smelters in Australia consume 10% of the nation's electricity and produce close to 5% of total emissions. Smelting is so energy intensive that in ...

For silica, a necessary raw material for silicon metal smelting, prices in various regions saw varying degrees of decline this year. Even in Hubei, where demand remained consistently high, silica ...

Sydney, Australia — Australia will reward power-guzzling aluminum smelters that use renewable electricity instead of coal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday as he unveiled a US$1.2 ...

Australia pledges $1.25B for aluminum smelters to transition to renewable energy, targeting 82% renewables by 2030. Tomago Aluminum CEO warned that high electricity costs threaten operations ...

Nvidia has partnered with TSMC for the development of silicon photonics. Speaking to reporters after meeting with TSMC chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the partnership ...