Volt Rush
The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
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Volt Rush
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Narrated by:
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Rory Barnett
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By:
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Henry Sanderson
About this listen
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.
We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.
Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, and a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a "greener" world.
©2022 Henry Sanderson (P)2022 Blackstone PublishingListeners also enjoyed...
Sadly the mining of battery metals is far from green in many circumstances, with significant damage to local environments and massive carbon dioxide pollution. The West has made a significant strategic and environmental errors in allowing production of batteries and their required metals to be handled for the most part by Chinese companies. This is a wonderful book which is highly educational and also enjoyable to listen to.
Critical metals for the battery supply
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