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There's no free lunch in clean energy
Crucial green technologies, including solar panels, wind turbines and electric-vehicle batteries, require increasing amounts of metals, such as lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and rare-earth elements. According to US cybersecurity company Mandiant, pr°China agents have even posed online a...
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Published in: | Nature (London) 2023-03, Vol.615 (7953), p.563-563 |
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Summary: | Crucial green technologies, including solar panels, wind turbines and electric-vehicle batteries, require increasing amounts of metals, such as lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and rare-earth elements. According to US cybersecurity company Mandiant, pr°China agents have even posed online as local US activists in attempts to spark protests over rare-earth mines. [...]there will be limits to such changes in lower-density areas, including much of the United States. [...]with around 775 million people worldwide unable to access electricity, energy conservation alone will not suffice to meet basic sustainable-development targets. |
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ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |