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The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future - Vince Beiser 📕 “Power Metal”
Copper Nickel & Cobalt (& Potash) in Solar Wind #EVs & Electronics 🔚 #cdnPoli #Mining #onPoli #RingOfFire #VinceBeiser
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"They're either concrete or they're asphalt." - VINCE BEISER, Built on Sand, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #BuiltonSand #AsphaltDay #VinceBeiser
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It was President Richard Nixon…who created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970….But everything has a cost. America sloughed off its pollution onto other countries, but, in the process, it lost control over many of what have since become critical industries.
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The microbiologist, Cristina Dorador “has long argued that the real problem is much bigger than lithium mining in Chile…
‘Maintaining the same level of consumption is impossible. It's physically impossible…We need to change the way that we live on Earth.’”
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…if the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, you have no power. The only way to guarantee on-demand access to energy…is to store it in batteries…Manufacturing all those batteries requires titanic quantities of resources…High on the list is nickel….
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Of all the metals critical to the energy transition, copper is the one we need the most of in sheer tonnage. The red metal not only composes the arteries of the electric grid, it is also a critical component of renewable-energy tech itself….
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Our high-tech, carbon-free future depends on one of humanity's oldest and dirtiest endeavors: mining…. Laptops, tablets, and cell phones are made from a kaleidoscopic array of materials, from everyday metals to far more exotic and obscure substances.
#PowerMetal Author #VinceBeiser Live at the #Berkeley #Ecology Center Store www.indybay.org/calendar/eve...
