Wednesday, January 31, 2018

wednesday:

x 1 bank
2
doctor
3 cases
x 4 i forget? bert tickets.

clean front yard

be aware of envelope

dawn

dishes/laundry

back yard

1116 case files - start here

doctor/cancer screening.

replace credit cards

x go to morty's and buy tickets.

x critique kevin's resume

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

did: cleaned van.
drove around looked at properties.
explained to kevin about how i set up the squarespace store
and the app to do ekgs for $99 plus an iphone.

or $299 + iwatch for the wristband version.
ttook out trash.
 we will dry laundry tonight.
spanked t.




Sunday, January 28, 2018

sunday: dawn borrowed a cup of sugar
kevin cleaned the yard $30
fnb
tommy $7.
misty $20
cleaned yard

One process is the ammonia pressure leach, in which nickel is recovered from solution using hydrogen reduction, and the sulfur is recovered as ammonium sulfate for use as fertilizer.

so if the sulphur can be precipitated out of the seawater brine, it has a market.

nickel 12,000 a ton, price fluctuates a lot. see also  cobalt mining. 

 In electrorefining, the nickel is deposited onto pure nickel cathodes from sulfate or chloride solutions. This is done in electrolytic cells equipped with diaphragm compartments to prevent the passage of impurities from anode to cathode. 
=
The price of refined cobalt has fluctuated in the past year from $20,000 to $26,000 a ton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/

Cobalt demand for lithium-ion batteries is expected to double by 2025

76,525
75,000
tons
50,000
32,657
25,000
2,698
0
2000
2015
2025
Source: Christophe Pillot, Avicenne Energy

The cobalt price was falling, even as battery demand shot up. The price of lithium, another key battery material, was skyrocketing.

mined by child labor in congo.

Saturday, January 27, 2018


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  • kevin multiple streams

    1 plasma
    2 on demand staffing agency
    3 auction place
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10.

    agenda.

    list of projects for here
    back yard
    organization
    inventory
    pricing
    sales/

    kevin:





    Synopsis

    Iva Toguri, better known as “Tokyo Rose,” was born in Los Angeles on July 4, 1916. After college, she visited Japan and was stranded there after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Forced to renounce her U.S. citizenship, Toguri found work in radio and was asked to host “Zero Hour,” a propaganda and entertainment program aimed at U.S. soldiers. After the war, she was returned to the U.S. and convicted of treason, serving 6 years in prison. Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose in 1976 and she died in 2006
    https://www.biography.com/people/tokyo-rose-37481

    perhaps it was a different tokyo rose who was a counteragent?

    to do: tell tom rhodes about tokyo rose
    Tokyo Rose, whose real name was Iva Toguri, was an American-born Japanese woman who hosted a Japanese propaganda radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II.


    • Lithium replaced by other chemistries. Unlikely, as no other technology is as compelling as lithium. Plus, lithium itself is only 2-5% of the cost of manufacturing lithium batteries. You can view the battery cost breakup here.
    so that just rocked my world - i'd been assuming the cost of the lithium battery was due to the lithium.

    https://qnovo.com/82-the-cost-components-of-a-battery/

     In contrast, a lithium-ion battery for an electric vehicle can range between $7,000 and $20,000, making it by far the most expensive item in the cost of the vehicle. So what drives these cost figures?

    Today’s metric stands near $200 /kWh (or $0.20 /Wh) for consumer-grade batteries, and the cost continues to decline. See this earlier post to learn how these costs declined by 10X from 1995 to 2015, primarily as a result of increasing installed battery manufacturing capacity. Cost of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars is also declining…recent announcements from General Motors suggest a cost of $145 /kWh for their EVs declining to $100 /kWh in 2021. Now that’s GM’s numbers and they don’t necessarily reflect the cost structure for all EV makers — albeit it is highly rumored that Tesla’s figures are in the same vicinity. At $145 /kWh, the estimated cost of the lithium-ion battery of the newly announced Chevy Bolt is $8,700, plus an additional $3,000 for the pack electronics, for a total of nearly $12,000 — not too bad for an electric car that is advertised to go 200 miles and priced at about $40,000 before government incentives.


    Overhead costs are, however, much more significant at 30% — they include depreciation of the capital, energy costs, R&D, sales and administrative…etc.

    The material costs are by far the largest contributors — about 60% of the total cost. For lithium-ion batteries made using lithium-cobalt oxide cathodes (LCO, used in consumer devices) or nickel-cobalt-aluminum cathodes (NCA, used in Tesla), the price of raw cobalt is a major component, presently priced at $10.88 per lb. That translates to nearly $10 to $15 /kWh just for the cost of raw material for the cathode — before processing and manufacturing. If you are wondering about cobalt sources, mines in Africa are the largest production sites. The good news are that cobalt pricing is at its lowest since it hit a peak of $50 per lb in 2007, and the US Department of Energy does not deem its supply at risk.

    So possible solution: gigafactory in africa to mine cobalt while making solar panels and batteries. so to do, research cobalt mining.

    ==
    To do: get to work on writing an article for tesla motors club about how tesla might be bringing down the cost of the battery. 
    Start with the chart.
    source:
    https://qnovo.com/82-the-cost-components-of-a-battery/
    Then a catchy lede.

    To oversimplify, the battery has two costs, materials (60%), and overhead (40%).
    In more detail, the costs include profit, capital recovery through depreciation, overhead generally, which might include r&d, sales, administration, taxes, labor, 

    and materials, including for the cathode, anode, electrolyte fluid, case, and "other".
    In addition to the lithium (as a chloride), cobalt, nickel, and aluminum are used.   Cobalt, per pound, is about three times as expensive as lithium. I do not yet know the relative weights used. We could then factor in price per pound to see what the cost factors of the battery are per mineral.

    Extrapolating from things Elon Musk has said, I think he will drive the overhead costs towards zero. I discuss some specifics below.

    However, overhead costs are no more than 40%.

    So, for the moment, materials costs are the limiting factor.

    Musk has claimed he will drive the price of the battery pack in half for the new models such as the roadster2 and the truck.
    Analysts such as Ben Sullins [ceo of teslanomics.co] are wondering if Musk is counting on a new technology or new kind of battery.

    I lean more toward thinking Musk can get at least halfway to his goal using his current bag of tricks (automation, economies of scale, PV electrification.) (He could then handwave the rest; that is, if he only brought the cost down 1/3, he could still claim victory.)

    This is not to say there won't be technology developments in batteries over the next 3 years, outside of Tesla. Circa 1920, the lead-acid battery created a plateau for automotive batteries, that remains dominant even today for ice vehicles.

    Moore's law has come late to the battery world. But lithium batteries are replacing lead, and there has beeen a new focus on basic research and then commercialization.
    Iron edison, for example, is doing interesting stuff.

    When I started research for this article a week ago, I mistakenly thought the main price component of a lithium-ion battery would be the lithium. 

    So I went on a deep dive about lithium brine processing in california and argentina. Lithium is currently  about $3/lb. A few years ago, it was $1. $7 is possible due to enhanced demand for electric car batteries which will triple demand by 2022,
    but I think it can be restored to the $1-$2 per pound range by application of Tesla-type engineering. 
    But it turns out that's a sideshow because the costs of the battery are elsewhere. So how to lower the costs of lithium brine mining is no longer the focus of this article.

    I am no chemist. My father's doctorate was in chemistry, mine is in law. So this article is from a layman's perspective.
    I hope to get input from those with a better grasp of science than I have, for a later 2.0 version of this article.


    [I will need to re-sort the order of the paragraphs in this article for better flow. this is a first draft; it's nowhere near ready to post. note to self do not post till ready.]

    Key materials include cobalt, nickel, aluminum, and lithium.

    In the long term, Musk runs both Tesla and SpaceX, and will be sending ships to mars. It is reasonable to think he'll head to the asteriod belt and grab a mountain of nickel-iron, and solve his materials needs. But that long term is beyond the scope of this paper; I am looking at the 2018-2024 range mostly.

    Currently as far as I know Tesla buys its cobalt, nickel, aluminum, and lithium on the open market, rather than producing any in-house.

    So far I know nothing about cobalt except that it is mined in africa. 
    So I'm guessing that electrification and automation and economies of scale could be applied. Sit a gigafactory over a cobalt mine, output cobalt, fertilizer, clean drinking water, internet, electricty, and via that internet deliver education and perhaps discounted tesla sales and health care to the locals.
    Cobalt mining proably has a set of byproducts which could be pollution or valuable resources if handled right. Ideally the byproducts pay for the operation, with cobalt as a free output.

    But all that's just a guess, extrapolating from what I found with lithium.

    Nickel: no idea, except as above: electrify with solar, automate, scale up volume, market byproducts.

    The other way to get nickel is have an AI robot sort through us currency for nickel, copper, silver, still in some old coins.

    Meanwhile it pays for itself by locating the rare old collectable coin.

    Aluminum is made from sand; is it basalt? I meant bauxite. Aluminum silicate oxides are commonplace in the earth's crust; these are not rare minerals. The main cost is the electric power to remove the oxides. Alumium can function as a battery, a form of .. forget what called. fuel cell.

    And Musk is a guy who thinks he can make his own power cheaper, so making his own aluminum makes sense. He can build a PV plant in California, sell the power to LA during peak hours, and use it to smelt bauxite the rest of the time, fixing the "duck curve" problem. Daily and seasonal energy price fluctuations can be smoothed out this way.

    This will be capital intensive. That capital should be raised and spent seperately from Tesla, by a subsidiary, let's call it Besla.
    Besla buys PV panels from Tesla's gigafactory, uses its tesla truck to ship to CA, till it has a big power grid, to either run the smelter or sell to the open market, or lock in a contract as a peaking power plant. Enough batteries to handle sending the whole day's output to LA during peak hours.
    Later, more panels can be added so the plant runs all the time anyway. But the initial financing is as a peaking power plant.
    100% of the alumimun output goes to tesla, so no need for a sales division, pretty much everything automated. So it's a utility that outputs aluminum. But wait. Aluminum is basically a big battery in itself. So the process can be run backwards to power LA in an emergency. So it makes CA grid more robust. What is the efficiency loss of turing from aloxide to al3 and back? I don't know. 

    All this could be sited, either at a bauxite mine, or at the california lithium salt sites that are ripe for a gigafactory anyway. the problem there would be transporting the bauxite ore. might be impractical.

    note to self: seasteading, brine, desalination, seasteading platform can fill tankers with fresh water, while another tanker, parked, holds the brine for processing to magnesium, potassium, calcium, lithium, etc.

    with greenhouses, fresh water, potassium, calcium, and trace minerals, the seasteaders are well on the way to having dirt to grow crops in. nitrogen? they can use their own or harvest seaweeds for nitrogen? grow nitrogen-fixing crops like alfalfa.
    by products include seeds and sprouts. possibly sprout juice.

    a simple method of concentrating calcium from seawater biologically is the oyster. as a byproduct you get cleaner water, and pearls, and food.
    a seasteading platform could be a series of greenhouses. in this one, there's oysters, in this one, there's oyster mushrooms, in this one, roses, in this one, alfalfa, in this one, hemp or tobacco or tomatoes or peanuts. in this one, worms, in this one, lobsters, catfish, koi, orchids, bristlecone pine, crickets. getting off track.

    in this one, there's bacteria precipitating out chemicals such as manganese Mg, calcium Ca potassium K sulphates  (S...) lithium Li and so forth. I don't know if there are bacteria to concentrate strontium, boron, aluminum, need to review my chart of the trace minerals. 













    Water purification[edit]

    Graphite oxides were studied for desalination of water using reverse osmosis beginning in the 1960s.[55] In 2011 additional research was released.[56]
    In 2013 Lockheed Martin announced their Perforene graphene filter. Lockheed claims the filter reduces energy costs of reverse osmosis desalination by 99%. Lockheed claimed that the filter was 500 times thinner than the best filter then on the market, one thousand times stronger and requires 1% of the pressure.[57] The product was not expected to be released until 2020.[58]

    update, claims debunked.

    Friday, January 26, 2018

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39482342

    graphene oxide can now be used for desalination. need to scale this up and integrate it into my previous ideas.
    did friday

    charged fone
    $50 dollar store
    $20 goodwill
    $20 kevin
    $6 tommy

    got an ari berman rolling stone article posted to hasen
    met w xander. gave him a sewing machine.
    emailed psilo but he's too busy to stop by.
    washed a dish.
    helped clean the back yard
    made a list.
    changed the bateeries in the remote
    watched tim ferris videos
    dawn is in hospital
    old lady is dying.

    $50 dollar store
    $20 goodwill
     pink shirt brooks brothers
     3 books 3 bios.
     pressure cooker
     revereware

    $20 kevin - cleaned back yard
    $6 tommy cigarettes and coffee

    dinner is cod provencal au rice et ratatoulle

    still to do: clean back yard more. forgot to go to aaa. did buy aaa batteries.



    Tuesday, January 23, 2018

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16384797

    Removal and recovery of lithium using various microorganisms.  TakehikoTsurutaa







    The accumulation of lithium by microorganisms was examined. Among the 70 strains of the 63 species tested (20 bacteria, 18 actinomycetes, 18 fungi, and 14 yeasts), a high lithium accumulating ability was exhibited by strains of the bacteria, Arthrobacter nicotianae and Brevibacterium helovolum. Lithium accumulation by A. nicotianae cells was strongly affected by the pH of the solution. The amount of accumulated lithium was maximum at pH 6. Cells immobilized with polyacrylamide gel also adsorbed lithium. They could be reused during repeated adsorptions, and adsorbed 548 μmol of lithium/g dry wt. cells. The adsorbed lithium was quantitatively and easily desorbed with 1 M hydrochloric acid using a column system.

    Here is how the numbers work. Right now worldwide demand for finished lithium comes to around 160,000 tons a year and is expected to rise to 400,000 to 500,000 per year over the next decade. That means we need to bring around 25,000 tons of supply online per year, or about the output of a single mine. Hence, ten new mines are needed. - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2016/08/29/is-there-money-to-be-made-in-lithium-mining/#138caaaa23f3

    current prices $3/lb. so $6K a ton.
    x 100,000 tons , added demand more or less. 
    so $600 000 000. maybe$1Billion a year. so potentially large market.
    so goal would be to produce it for $1.50/lb, ish.

    MINERAL MAKEUP OF SEAWATER

    In order of most to least:
    ELEMENT
    MOLECULAR WEIGHT
    PPM IN SEAWATER
    MOLAR CONCENTRATION
    Chloride35.4189800.536158
    Sodium23105610.459174
    Magnesium24.312720.052346
    Sulfur328840.027625
    Calcium404000.01
    Potassium39.13800.009719
    Bromine79.9650.000814
    Carbon(inorganic)12280.002333
    Strontium87.6130.000148
    Boron10.84.60.000426
    Silicon28.140.000142
    Carbon (organic)1230.00025
    Aluminum271.90.00007
    Fluorine191.40.000074
    N as nitrate140.70.00005
    Nitrogen (organic)140.20.000014
    Rubidium850.20.0000024
    Lithium6.90.10.000015
    P as Phosphate310.10.0000032
    Copper63.50.090.0000014
    Barium1370.050.00000037
    Iodine126.90.050.00000039
    N as nitrite140.050.0000036
    N as ammonia140.050.0000036
    Arsenic74.90.0240.00000032
    Iron55.80.020.00000036
    P as organic310.0160.00000052
    Zinc65.40.0140.00000021
    Manganese54.90.010.00000018
    Lead207.20.0050.000000024
    Selenium790.0040.000000051
    Tin118.70.0030.000000025
    Cesium132.90.0020.000000015
    Molybdenum95.90.0020.000000021
    Uranium2380.00160.0000000067
    Gallium69.70.00050.0000000072
    Nickel58.70.00050.0000000085
    Thorium2320.00050.0000000022
    Cerium1400.00040.0000000029
    Vanadium50.90.00030.0000000059
    Lanthanum139.90.00030.0000000022
    Yttrium88.90.00030.0000000034
    Mercury200.60.00030.0000000015
    Silver107.90.00030.0000000028
    Bismuth2090.00020.00000000096
    Cobalt58.90.00010.0000000017
    Gold1970.0000080.00000000004