Aluminum
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Wang: Electrochemical aluminum conversion outperforms combustion efficiency without NOx emissions
“You can really design electrochemical systems that are incredibly cost-effective and capable, and ultimately able to convert that energy from its raw thermodynamic form in aluminum out to electricity with far higher efficiency than combustion, without any of t…”
Wang: Aluminum fuel is twice as energy-dense by volume as diesel
“In fact, is from a volume basis, about twice as energy dense as diesel on an as-converted basis. So come at the amount of electricity you're getting out per, you know, liter per gallon of fuel. And then even on a weight basis, you are a little bit better than …”
Power: Electricity accounts for 95% of aluminum manufacturing costs
“Like, 95% of the cost of aluminum is just the kilowatt hour of the power price.”
Power: Energy comprises 90% of aluminum and steel manufacturing costs
“It's the cost of raw materials, aluminum, steel, 90% of the cost of that is actually energy.”
Caldwell: Aluminum is the most consumed metal in defense
“It's actually, like, the number one most consumed metal in defense applications.”
Yao: Sodium-ion replaces copper with cheaper aluminum current collectors
“Where the substrate metal foil that the negative bread is attached to, usually in lithium ion, has to be copper. In sodium ion, it can be aluminum, and that's lighter, it's cheaper it has some other benefits that we can get into later, but apart from all of th…”
Origami Solar CEO: Steel is superior to aluminum for solar frame applications
“And steel's inherent fatigue resistance, higher strength it's truly just a better metal than aluminum for a steel frame application.”
Patterson: Domestic steel traditionally costs one-third the price of aluminum
“We're actually reshoring using domestic steel, which is traditionally been about the third the cost of aluminum.”
Szaky: Switching from plastic to glass or aluminum is not inherently better
“No, I don't think so, because I think every material type has pros and cons. We're in a moment right now where we are I think rightly so, really projecting a lot of negative onto plastic because of microplastics, ocean plastic, all these things that are correc…”