I was watching Earth X channel’s Earth X News show when they had a segment about how some higher educational school’s (from what I remember) scientist have figured-out how to replace some of the rare Earth metals that make solar panels bad for The Livable Earth. The problem is they do not say the name of the scientists, what higher educational school & location that this happened at.
So created this to ask you all, does anyone know-
The name of the scientists,
What higher educational school
&
Location?
I haven’t seen that episode and I unfortunately can’t provide the specific answer you’re looking for but there does seem to be a good amount of of people doing research on using organic materials like peanut shells for energy related project and peanut shells are considered low cost and easy to source. There’s a teen in Zimbabwe who worked on harvesting energy from Peanut shells . Scientists in Canada created a new capacitor from Peanut shells. A a physicist from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal has done work on energy storage using Peanuts. There’s been research into utilizing Peanut shells for solar desalination and a town in Argeinta uses them to keep the power on so I’m sure this is something we’ll be hearing more about in the future
WOW, that is all awesome, Thank you!!! That is the first-time I have read all that before, I knew there was a reason that while eating too much Peanut Butter is bad for me & Walnut Butter is a lot healthier nut butter to eat, I still eat enough to support a community of Peanut farmers.
WOW, THANK YOU, SO MUCH!!! You just cannot know how much resources I put into trying find it!
Using the ‘teen in Zimbabwe’ article, you provide me a link to, I found the exact thing (can tell by the PIC of the article matches what on the segment mentioned) I was looking for, the article you provided had a link to it- https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/peanut-shells-lithium-ion-batteries/.
I’m glad we were able to find what were you looking for! Definitely the right place to crowdsource a question like this. Thank you for bringing it up! It really makes sense to put those shells to good use and especially relevant for Solarpunk and this community.
Thank you,
As a struggling inventor, I cannot tell you how happy I am to find this community!
Then there was also this awesome article- ‘Repurposing of Fruit Peel Waste as a Green Reductant for Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries’ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02873.
