A drill rig at Controlled Thermal Resources’ Hells Kitchen Lithium and Power project in Calipatria, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium from geothermal wastewater around the Salton Sea in California’s Imperial Valley.
Instead of cutting through landscapes with oil and gas wells and pipelines, clean energy industries and their suppliers will open up the Earth to hunt for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper. Compared to a gas-fired power plant, an onshore wind turbine requires nine times more mineral resources,Move forward without throwing certain communities under the bus
It’s about time to scrutinize what that hunger for minerals might cause, given the recent boom in pledges from countries and companies alike to. Digging up the necessary minerals is already proving to be a minefield. Protests are popping up at proposed mines that no one really wants in their backyard. The conflicts that cropped up in 2021 are just the beginning of a challenging road ahead.: the world isn’t mining enough of the minerals that are the building blocks of a clean energy future.
What clean energy?! We need more coal for the billions of lithium EV battery cells that need fast charging on daily basis! You supported electric cars and thought of reducing carbon dioxide?! You're doomed!
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A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously.
Pretty sure the late SergioMarchionne of fcagroup talked about