Update 7.7.2023: China restricts exports of rare materials for chip production
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450 percent increase in mineral production will be needed to meet net zero by 2050.
“You simply can’t build minerals-guzzling electric vehicles without massive mines. The average electric vehicle contains over 206 kilograms of copper, lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt, graphite, and rare earth elements,” Rinehart said in May. “Currently, there is one country that dominates processing for copper, rhenium, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and virtually every other critical mineral and rare earth I could name—and that’s China,” he said.
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Is it realistic to generate electricity for the whole world in an environmentally friendly way so that the target can be achieved? If only a small part of the world achieves this goal, it will only be at the cost of weakening itself. Changes are needed, but radical ones are a road to hell. JŠ
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