Nov. 22, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| We developed the technology in my group called flash jewel heating. | |
| And it's not a name that we coined, that's been around, where you put a high voltage and a high current through a material that is not highly conductive, that has about a one ohm resistance, which means that you can conduct electricity through it. | |
| It's much like your toaster. | |
| Your toaster, you have this coil that you put a voltage across it and you run this current through, but there's enough resistance that coil gets red hot very quickly. | |
| That's flash joule heating. | |
| And it's like the old incandescent light bulbs. | |
| And you see this big glow. | |
| And what we learned is that we can put any carbon material between electrodes and flash jewel heat it, turn it into graphene. | |
| Graphene is a space-age material, and we started a company around that that's up and going. | |
| But then we realized that we could take certain materials, say industrial waste, like fly ash, which is the residue that's left over after burning coal, the inorganic material. | |
| We could flash it and we could get rare elements to come out. | |
| And so we could do that. | |
| We get other metals from industrial waste and then also consumer waste, consumer electronics. | |
| And you can put a high voltage, high current. | |
| And then we learned if you put chlorine in during the process, then they come out much more easily because you convert them from metal zero or metal oxides to metal chlorides, which are much more volatile. | |
| You lower the boiling point by 3,000 degrees, and then they'll come out. | |
| And just based on the reactivity of a certain metal to chlorine at these higher temperatures, we can predict when they're going to come out and we can separate them coming out. | |
| So we developed this technology. | |
| We started doing this in 2020. | |
| We started doing this on metals. | |
| And then it was after that that the metals that China put this kibosh on sending us metals and it became a much more important. |
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