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As Ideon Technologies goes underground, its profile has never been higher

The Richmond company’s x-ray technology has the potential to save the world some much-needed energy.

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William Johnson
Jan 19, 2022
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Ideon CEO Gary Agnew on the left. (Credit: Ideon)

The way Gary Agnew sees things, there's no clean energy without mining. Minerals like aluminum, cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium — they’re “critical to enabling Elon Musk and the electric vehicle revolution to happen,” he recently told me over Zoom. It’s not just about Tesla and EVs though, he said. 

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