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Sanderson Henry
Volt Rush The Winners And Losers In The Race To Go Green
Volt Rush The Winners And Losers In The Race To Go Green
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Binding: Paperback
Description: In the twentieth century wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers perhaps different wars. A remarkably hopeful and useful book. The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we ve come to take for granted. Bill Mc Kibben Observer book of the week 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.
Title: Volt Rush The Winners And Losers In The Race To Go Green
Author(s): Sanderson Henry
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Barcode: 9780861546190
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: Mining Technology & Engineering
Description: In the twentieth century wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers perhaps different wars. A remarkably hopeful and useful book. The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we ve come to take for granted. Bill Mc Kibben Observer book of the week 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.
Title: Volt Rush The Winners And Losers In The Race To Go Green
Author(s): Sanderson Henry
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Barcode: 9780861546190
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: Mining Technology & Engineering