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Rice University: Urban Mining for Metals Flashes Electronic Trash Into Treasure
October 05, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 5 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

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Flash Joule heating by Rice lab recovers precious metals from electronic waste in seconds

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In what should be a win-win-win for the environment, a process developed at Rice University to extract valuable metals from electronic waste would also use up to 500 times less energy than current lab methods and produce a byproduct clean enough for agricultur . . .

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