Volt rush : the winners and losers in the race to go green / Henry Sanderson.
Publisher:
Oneworld,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
viii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a 'greener' world.
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