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The Wyoming Innovation Center is a place for companies and researchers to work on developing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, and carbon fibre, and extract rare earths from coal and coal byproducts.
Innovation center launched in Wyoming’s Carbon Valley tasked with finding new uses for coal Surface coal mine in Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming. (Reference image by Greg Goebel, Wikimedia Commons). The leading coal-producing state in the US, Wyoming, will now be the home of a 5,500-square-foot coal commercialization facility where companies and researchers can work on producing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, carbon fiber, and more – using coal and coal byproducts. Owned by Energy Capital Economic Development (ECED), an organization funded primarily by private invest...