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Power Metal

The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future

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 The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better.

An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic.

These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet.

Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world. Environnement Nature et écologie Science Économie Technologie
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A great source of well written, oft times shocking, yet entertaining, factual, all encompassing, renewable energy info that spans the globe as it unfolds. From the highest driest desert in the world, to deep sea, and deep space. From auto wreckers, to giant landfills, and back alley waste bins. From the Arctic to Australia and Chile to China. From the air you breath, food you eat, clothes you wear, devices you depend on, and vehicles you drive. No rock is left unturned.

A must read for anyone wanting a better understanding of what it takes to keep up with the consumer demand for more and more

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