Shortages of rare earth elements could limit clean energy development
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Laura Mast is an NSF Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies resource recovery, specifically at extract rare earth elements from coal fly ash, a waste material produced from burning coal for electricity. She was recently the lead organizer for ComSciCon-Atlanta, a workshop training graduate students in science communication, and she runs a start up that streamlines voting at STEM competitions.
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