{"id":13457,"date":"2014-06-06T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2014-06-06T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T17:37:53","slug":"startup-has-a-new-way-to-make-rare-earths-and-other-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13457","title":{"rendered":"Startup Has a New Way to Make Rare Earths and Other Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The ceramic material Powell showed me\u2014which is made of zirconium oxide\u2014replaces the carbon electrode and eliminates those emissions. Researchers have been trying to replace carbon for many years, but the molten salts have corroded the alternatives. The key advance for Infinium was developing alternative molten salts that don\u2019t react with the zirconium oxide, so that it can last long enough to be practical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/527526\/a-cleaner-cheaper-way-to-make-metals\/\">Startup Has a New Way to Make Rare Earths and Other Metals | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finding an alternative to carbon has long been the \u201cdream\u201d of the metals industry, says <a href=\"http:\/\/sadoway.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Sadoway<\/a>, a professor of materials science at MIT who is not involved with the company. \u201cI believe [Infinium\u2019s] technology is sound. It\u2019s real,\u201d he says. Whether the company succeeds \u201cis all about the economics,\u201d he says. \u201cNo one cares about the flow chart for the process. You care about the prices. If it produces a good metal at a lower cost, people will be interested.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ceramic material Powell showed me\u2014which is made of zirconium oxide\u2014replaces the carbon electrode and eliminates those emissions. Researchers have been trying to replace carbon for many years, but the molten salts have corroded the alternatives. The key advance for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[946,631,387,308],"class_list":["post-13457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-chemistry","tag-material-science","tag-mit","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13458,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}