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Developing Processes For The Low-Cost Manufacturing Of High Purity Silicon Metals For Next-Generation Lithium-ion Batteries

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Silicony thoughts

posted on Nov 09, 2020 07:28PM

Hi Bernard,

First and foremost, thank you very much for the creativity, imagination, organisation and leadership you’ve shown. Here’s hoping this turns into the mother of all home runs and the ball disappears faaar over the horizon.

I have a couple of questions;

1. I’ve been around since the UBR days and seem to vaguely recall a mention many years ago, that the Si02 on its property is of a higher grade of purity or quality than is more commonly found elsewhere. Is this true, and if it is, then will BGF become a big Si02 supplier to HPQ?

2. When Si reacts with water to form hydrogen (2Si + 2H2O = 2Si02 + 2H2) the resultant Si02 should have very high purity if the water that is used is distilled water. Can this resultant Si02 be used as feedstock for the NanoReactor?