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Sarah Oppenheimer

@saropp.bsky.social
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Strategic comms to speed up the energy transition, now as Communication and Policy Director at RAP. Interested in the details and overcoming the blockages. Also mum of 3 endlessly growing boys.

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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Oh THANK YOU so much @ledbydonkeys.org this has given me such a great laugh to start my day. You are all my hero 😂🤩🦸 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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What happened next: the night Led By Donkeys projected Trump and Epstein on to Windsor Castle
The art activists made headlines during the US president’s state visit when they shocked the waiting media with a short documentary – and were quickly arrested
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Sem Oxenaar @soxenaar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The future energy bill is an electricity bill. This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry. In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry. tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd
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Making electricity cheaper: Modernising taxes and levies to incentivise electrification of industrial heat
RAP experts Sem Oxenaar and Tom Butler look at the state of electricity and gas prices for industry and the impact of reducing taxes and levies.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Be careful what you wish for. “China got to where it is today by setting a long-term strategy and sticking to it. There’s a lesson there for Europe’s policymakers and auto industry”. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Carmakers Ought to Be Careful What They Wish for on EU Emissions
Thanks for reading Hyperdrive, Bloomberg’s newsletter on the future of the auto world.
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Regulatory Assistance Project @regassistproj.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎧 RAP’s @louisesunderland.bsky.social joins journalist @kirataylor.bsky.social to talk about making electricity cheaper and fairer. Smart policies can cut bills and speed up the energy transition. Listen here 👉 foresightmedia.com/story/sizlfj... #Energy #Policy #Podcast
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Steps to slash power prices
In today’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks into how Europe could cut its electricity bills, plus pushback on sustainability reporting as the United Nations calls for stronger ESG in mining
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
❤️❤️ not many of us are as great as this, what an inspiration. Big loss. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
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Duncan Gibb @duncangibb.net · 29/09/2025
It's going to be a lot easier to decarbonize heating if we bring down electricity prices. That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households. www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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Making electricity cheaper: Redistributing policy costs for affordable household heat electrification
Affordable electrification relies on affordable electricity. Nuanced price reform will best equip decision-makers for success.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Proud to work with people who bring serious & practical suggestions to the challenge of making electricity cheaper, and accelerating the energy transition. 🙌💪
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Important article which makes the obvious point that climate change is happening, the 'underlying foundational tailwinds have not changed' and 'there is a tremendous demand for energy'. All meaning there is money to be made shifting to safer, healthier and more efficient systems. on.ft.com/4nwFfdi
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Galvanize fund run by top Democrats to capitalise on Trump green cuts
New credit strategy to target viable companies and projects left in the cold by US policy shift
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Hugely important and worrying news: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Opinion | The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“the formerly Instagram-friendly views now seem apocalyptic” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Southern Europe bakes and burns, turning holiday hotspots into infernos
Black smoke is darkening blood-red skies across the continent – devastating residents and forcing travellers to start searching for ‘coolcations’ further north. Plus, the latest on Ukraine
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Big fan of Sara Aagesen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says
Environment minister says blazes are proof of country’s vulnerability to global heating as fires burn across Europe
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⚡️EU power is becoming less and less reliant on fossil fuels EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024): 🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆 🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15% 🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46% 🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55% 🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50% 🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Guterres really does have a great speechwriter, so many good lines here. And good change of tone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says
António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It's a sad reflection on the state of things when telling the truth is called 'radical' but good Ed Miliband has the energy and determination to call out the bullsh**t: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations
Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Thank you @ericholthaus.com I have been waiting for this analysis of the role of climate change, and recognition of the “trend towards increasing atmospheric moisture content globally as the world warms and the air can hold more water vapor”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis
Texas’s ‘flash flood alley’ could bring even more floods in near future as Trump cuts compound with warming climate
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Barbara Kingsolver is so inspiring. I couldn’t love this woman and her writing and her actions more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel
Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars. As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
On why US renewables are still a good investment: "this administration is just a blip on a 30-year megatrend" on.ft.com/3HwWk7x
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Why investors remain bullish on US renewables
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ could slash clean energy tax credits but long-term backers in the sector are not spooked
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I have heard the complete opposite, that the diaspora is more liberal
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I like this a lot although it has made me think I need to buy a tablet and I’m not sure that’s the point…
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thanks, Håkan Samuelsson, for choosing to invest in the future: on.ft.com/4k9mhZc
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European carmakers’ challenge is to ‘stay on course’ with EVs
Sales in Europe are up, but groups face shifting regulations, tariff uncertainty and competition from China
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So low of Wael Sawan to say we need more gas to avoid power cuts like the one in Spain when the analysis of what went wrong isn’t out yet and he knows that - pure scaremongering on.ft.com/4jcPq48 Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
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Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
Special resolution calling for more detail on LNG business wins 20% backing
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Hard agree with this: on.ft.com/4mgkSBo
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Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of Donald Trump
If the US president is walking away from Ukraine, other allies must step up
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
No government is perfect but it has been a relief to escape Brexit lunacy and live under one that has achieved significant social and environmental progress. renewal.org.uk/articles/dar...
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Daring to deliver: Pedro Sánchez and the revival of Spanish social democracy
10 Renewal 33.1_Heymann10 Renewal 33.1_Heymann.pdf108 KBdownload-circle Since 2018, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has led one of the most successful social democratic governments in the worl...
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
There is more prosperity from decarbonising than not decarbonising. (But Repsol, Enagás and others didn’t get the memo) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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European firms ramping up lobbying for climate action, report finds
Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Dive into the April 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin summary: second-warmest April on record globally, 1.51°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. End of four months with record low Arctic sea ice extent for the time of the year. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/2nd-warmest-...
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Important Big Read on China's electrification and huge grid investment. Western countries have progressed on decarbonising electricity but are lagging on wider system electrification, which is where true energy security lies. on.ft.com/43g63Gl
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How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution
Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US
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Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Reliability is a system attribute and is not dependent on any specific class of resources. This @regassistproj.bsky.social package pulls together information and tools to respond quickly to misinformation about power outages like yesterday in ES/PT. 🔌💡 www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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Power Outage Rapid Response Toolkit
A toolkit designed for clean energy advocates to help set the record straight on root causes of electricity blackouts and grid outages.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Brilliant stuff! 🙌 What a great vote of confidence, trust and respect for Carbon Brief’s work across the board.
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350.org @350.org · 24/04/2025
In 10 yrs Uruguay switched from fossil fuels to 98% renewable electricity. What did this transformation bring? Lower costs. More jobs & #energysecurity. Showing what's possible with political will, public support & trust in renewables. 350.org/uruguay-ener... #IEASummit #REbootTheWorld #HopeHub
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/04/2025
Keir Starmer at the IEA/UK Summit in London: "Homegrown clean energy is the only way to take back control of our energy system, deliver energy security and bring down bills for the long term." "This is in the DNA of my government."
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 22/04/2025
NEW | 74% of the global population lives in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels. 12 countries supply 80% of net fossil fuel exports - with rising trade uncertainty, this puts much of the world at risk. 1/8 🧵 ember-energy.org/lat...
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“America’s economic problems are its own. When it shoots itself in the foot, it is the US that will be bleeding.” on.ft.com/3GkSq0M The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes
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The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes
America is not the powerhouse it once was
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025
The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) @irena-official.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Current national plans are set to deliver only half of the renewable energy growth needed by 2030, leaving a 3.8 TW gap. As the custodian of the #3xRenewables target, IRENA warns that the #UAEConsensus goal will fall short by 34%. bit.ly/3UuUgR5
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
EU carbon market emissions drop 5% in 2024, on track for 2030 target Decrease of emissions regulated under EU's ETS trading system driven by cuts in the power sector
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EU carbon market emissions drop 5% in 2024, on track for 2030 target
Carbon dioxide emissions regulated under the European Union's emissions trading system (ETS) fell by 5% in 2024, driven by cuts in the power sector, the European Commission said on Friday.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We said Brexit was the greatest act of self harm ever undertaken by a nation, but it seems to have been outdone. on.ft.com/447uiZh America’s astonishing act of self-harm
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America’s astonishing act of self-harm
Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
More clear analysis of the economic and reputational self harm by Trump’s US: on.ft.com/3FQEBqD Ten weeks that shook the world
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Ten weeks that shook the world
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trump’s US is competing with Brexit Britain to see who can commit the greatest act of economic and reputational self harm. What a clear analysis @timothysnyder.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Electricity (home grown & supported by interconnectors + batteries to compensate variability) offers security and stability cf volatile fossil fuels; reduces dependencies on dubious regimes and expose to geopolitical shocks; could and should be cheaper than fossils if taxes and incentives rebalanced
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some good lines on energy security, jobs, and lower bills. “People recognise that cheap, clean renewables beat expensive, insecure fossil fuels” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government ‘absolutely up for the fight’ over net zero, Ed Miliband says
Exclusive: energy secretary says 2050 target is imperative, and accuses opposition of betraying of future generations
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19/03/2025
It's gas that is making UK electricity expensive. www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/2
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/03/2025
The UN's meteorological agency said signs of human-induced climate change 'reached new heights' in 2024. www.ft.com/content/3691...
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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEW Climate action will make British people 'more secure', says UK envoy @rkyte365.bsky.social - after Kemi Badenoch claimed net zero would hit living standards news.sky.com/story/climat...
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Climate action will make British people 'more secure', says UK envoy, after Badenoch claimed it would hit living standards
Rachel Kyte said climate action would boost security by protecting people from extreme weather like flooding and soaring gas bills, and by persuading other countries to do more to curb global warming....
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Decarbonising is a challenge but also the greatest growth opportunity of the century. It's a win win for people and planet. Conservatives everywhere should understand this or be on the wrong side of history.
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Sarah Oppenheimer @saropp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just listened. Great episode. Great leadership.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells New recycling method environmentally friendly way to deal with e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery...
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Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells
New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars
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