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Brian Anderson is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Jessica Mullen is Engineer and Federal Project Manager at NETL. Franek Hasiuk is Associate Scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey.
For more than a century, fossil energy research and technology development has been advanced at DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory and its predecessor facilities as the energy needs of the U.S. have grown and evolved. NETL's history is that of our nation, and it continues to evolve as the energy and utilities industry moves ahead and changes.
Now, NETL's vision is to be the nation's premier energy technology laboratory, delivering integrated solutions to enable the transformation to a sustainable energy future. That vision includes critical minerals sustainability, a program aimed at extracting, separating, and recovering rare earth elements from the fossil fuel extraction process. It's meaningful because those critical minerals are needed for use in the renewables future of EVs, wind technology, magnets for devices, and much more.
There is so much to learn about this national lab and program, that PUF wrangled two busy experts from NETL, Brian Anderson and Jessica Mullen, along with industry partner from the Kansas Geological Survey, Franek Hasiuk, to talk about the future of critical and rare earth minerals in the U.S. Listen in.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Tell me about National Energy Technology Laboratory or NETL. What is it? What's its focus?