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The Rare Metals War The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

Paperback • 2020 • English

The Rare Metals War The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

By Guillaume Pitron

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About the book

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. 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 ...Show more

International economics
Conservation of the environment
Structural engineering

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9781950354313

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Scribe

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

The Rare Metals War The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

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Paperback

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