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The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots

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US government announces up to $10 million in funding to explore ways to use plants for extracting nickel from American soils. Getting plants to phytomine nickel from soils could supplement conventional mining of the metal. As plants grow, they suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. That plant carbon returns to the atmosphere when the plants are burned.

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The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots

Some species can absorb extreme amounts of nickel from soils. Such “phytomining” could help provide batteries essential for the renewable revolution.

1 month ago·United States

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