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More than 2,000 people evacuated after inferno engulfs a plastic recycling plant in Indiana
Ford’s Oakville plant in Canada will start making EVs in 2024
Ford’s factory in Oakville, Ontario, will begin its $1.3 billion ($1.8 billion CAD) transformation into an electric vehicle assembly plant in the second quarter of 2024. The retooling is expected to take six months to finish, the automaker said Tuesday.
During the process, an estimated 3,000 workers will be furloughed, according to Automotive News. Ford, however, says it expects to bring back virtually all the factory workers when the plant comes back online at the end of 2024.
The factory, which currently produces gas-powered Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers, will be renamed the Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex and will include a 407,000-square-foot battery assembly plant. The facility will use battery cells produced by Ford’s B…
The Biggest EV Battery Recycling Plant In the US Is Open For Business
“Paying for these spent batteries keeps them from going into the landfill,” O’Kronley told Canary Media. “It’s better to get paid for it rather than throw them away.” Ascend also accepts used consumer electronics from battery-collection programs, such as Call2Recycle. That’s not to say there are enough old batteries coming in to fill the factory. Currently, 80 to 90 percent of what’s going into Ascend’s Covington facility is scrap materials from battery factories, including SK Battery America’s plant in Commerce, Georgia.
That relationship influenced Ascend’s choice of location: Covington sits in the emerging “Battery Belt,” a swath of new battery factories and electric-vehicle plants opening up across the Midwest and the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky (look for all the blue icons in this White House map of new industrial investments). Fellow battery-recycling startup Redwood Materials also chose South Carolina for a forthcoming $3.5 billion recycling facility. “There will need to be a recycling plant within about an hour’s drive of every single one of those [new battery gigafactories],” O’Kronley said. “You don’t want to be [long-distance] shipping these very large, heavy EV batteries that are classified as Class 9 hazardous materials.” The report notes that the company’s second commercial-scale facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky will “introduce a brand-new technique for efficiently extracting cathode materials from black mass, which Ascend has dubbed ‘hydro to cathode.'”
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I’m a farmer – 5 mistakes first-time gardeners make, including why you shouldn’t plant everything at once
A FARMER has shared his list of the five mistakes many gardeners make when they’re just starting out.
His tips ranged from simple notes to why you shouldn’t plant everything at once.
TikTok user Farmer Froberg (@farmer.froberg) is a fourth-generation farmer and a military veteran.
He also spends his time as an agricultural educator and brings his knowledge to his online audience.
In a TikTok video, he shared five mistakes that gardening newbies often make.
Some were pretty easy to comprehend, while others were more complex.
“Number one, don’t just direct seed everything. Some plants prefer to be transplanted,” he said towards the beginning of the video.
The second mistake new gardeners often make is overwatering.
“To check to see if it’s time to water your established plants, dig around three inches down. And if the soil isn’t moist, don’t water, but if it’s dry, give it a good soaking,” he said.
The third tip pertained to not enough sunlight, and he explained that most plants require around eight hours of sun.
“Number four, quit planting everything at one time,” he declared.
For “cut and done” plants like lettuce, he recommended planting everything in weekly intervals, so you can harvest in weekly intervals.
The last mistake gardeners make is keeping bare soil covered in mulch.
Mulch is any material that is spread or laid over the surface of the soil and used for a covering.
Some good examples of mulch are straw, leaves, and wood chips.
Many people appreciated his advice and offered their own two cents.
“I make all these mistakes over and over. When will I learn?” a fan shared.
“Love the content and I take everything you say seriously,” another added.
“Can you go over which veggies to transplant and which to direct sow?” a viewer inquired.
Why this new plant is capturing carbon dioxide just to let it back out again
There’s a scramble in the US to build the first generation of technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And the first American company with this kind of system, Global Thermostat, just set up shop in Colorado to prove that its CO2-sucking technology actually works.
There’s been hype around Global Thermostat since it got started in 2010 as one of just three high-profile companies in the world developing this technology, called direct air capture (DAC). The idea is to filter CO2 out of the ambient air and then sell that CO2 as a product or sequester it underground to keep it from escaping into the atmosphere where it would heat up the planet.
But Global Thermostat has been roiled by years of delays and internal drama. Its…
This is what a plant sounds like when it’s stressed
New research challenges assumptions that the plant kingdom is silent. Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they’re stressed.
Other plants and animals might even be able to interpret those sounds. And the ability to listen in could even help humans get smarter about the way we grow our crops, especially in a world where climate change is increasingly stressing us all out.
“Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information,” Lilach Hadany, senior author of the paper and an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University, says in a press release.
Tomato and…
If you thought your neighbors were noisy, imagine living next to an engine-powered crypto-mining plant
Jack White congratulates Metallica on buying vinyl pressing plant
Take better care of your plants this spring with this plant ID app for $39 off
TL;DR: As of March 19, a lifetime subscription to NatureID Plant Identification Premium Plan is on sale for only $19.99 instead of the usual $59. That’s 66% in savings.
April showers bring May flowers…but what about plants? Plants can survive all four seasons, it just depends on which ones you choose to grow (and how well you look after them, of course). If you’re more of a novice when it comes to being a “plant parent” there’s a cool AI app for iPhone users that can help you learn more about the plant kingdom (which is officially called “Plantae,” by the way). Go ahead and start developing that green thumb.
With the NatureID Plant Identification Premium Plan’s lifetime subscription, you will be able to accurately identify over 14,000 plants by taking a photo of any plant (or tree) you see while using the app. It’s regularly $59, but is currently on sale — no coupon code required — for $19.99 for a limited time.
One intuitive feature of the NatureID app is its ability to identify any diseases your plant may have. This insight will guide you through how to help your plants thrive with the built-in plant care guide and provide insightful articles within the plant encyclopedia. This way, your sickly looking plant that may or may not be on its last legs has a chance of making a grand recovery. All of this helpful information can be found within the app, making plant care convenient. The app even has a plant journal which helps you set reminders to tend to your plants.
Attention hikers and campers: You can also take photos of trees you see and the app will be able to recognize them. After you take the picture, you’ll see a “recognition in process” screen, followed by a photo with the suggestion of a plant or tree the app recognized. If you want to learn more about the plant or tree, tap “learn more” to read up on it.
You’ll have fun playing around with it and educating yourself, as well as your plant-loving friends. Score lifetime access to the NatureID Plant Identification Premium Plan while it’s on sale for $19.99 today before this offer wilts away.
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