Invests $10 million for PHYTOMINES, a mission to research the potential of using hyperaccumulating crops to draw nickel from soil.
Will we shortly be able to farm plenty of the nickel wished for lithium-ion batteries? The U.S. Division of Vitality is investing $10 million to go looking out out.
The idea of using crops to extract nickel from soil should not be as far-fetched because it may sound. Researchers have identi…