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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
Main Author: Ali, Saleem H
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Language:English
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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.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687