As we move from the fossil fuel age into the battery-electric age we don’t want to swap one set of environmental problems for another. It’s therefore important that any risks posed by the new materials that will underpin a clean energy economy are identified and addressed.
A new finding from the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota illustrates what one of those risks may be. Professor Robert J. Hamers and his team discovered that a key component of lithium ion batteries spells trouble for …