The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies Is the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and…
Specifikacia The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
Is the shift to renewable energy and digital devices going to free us from severe pollution, material shortages, and military tensions?Rare metals are essential to electric vehicles, fighter jets, wind turbines, and solar panels, and also to our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other everyday connected objects. It is an undercover tale of a technological odyssey that has promised much, and a look behind the scenes. But consumers know very little about how they are mined and traded, or the environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs of this dependence.This book reveals the dark side of the world that awaits us.
Drawing on six years of research across a dozen countries, this book shows that by breaking free of fossil Behind it all lurks China, which has captured the lion's share of the ownership and processing of rare metals we now can't do without.
Dark Side of the Street
The Dark Side of the Mind
The Dark Side of the Island
Dark Side of the Light
The Dark Side of Leadership
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side