Despite some expectations to the contrary amongst some stock traders and associated firms, the widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles won’t lead to copper supply shortages anytime soon, according to CRU analysts.
Episode #47 of Cleantech Talk is here! This episode covers cobalt, EV batteries, BMW batteries, Tesla batteries, and Car2Go.
Within the next few months, the Chile-based, state-run firm Codelco will begin selling copper priced so as to take the environmental footprint of production into account, Codelco chairman Oscar Landerretche has revealed.
Inventories of non-ferrous metals may be boosted significantly in South Korea beginning next year, owing to the expectation of fast growing demand for electric vehicles, the country’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) has revealed.
An exec of one the top mining firms in the world, BHP, was quoted on Tuesday as saying that 2017 represented the “tipping point” for electric vehicle adoption.
Researchers in Canada and China have discovered new ways to make sustainable metals and reclaim scrap metal for battery electrodes.
Peru’s Environment Ministry has issued a decree proposing that the country’s environmental quality standards be lowered in a bid to attract a buyer/operator for a polymetallic smelter located there — as part of President Pablo Kuczynski’s efforts to add refining capacity to the country’s copper export sector (the second largest in the world).
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Originally published on The Lenz Blog by Karl-Friedrich Lenz Says this article at Nature Geoscience. Their numbers: If the contribution from wind turbines and solar energy to global energy production is to rise from the current 400 TWh to 12,000 TWh in 2035 and 25,000 TWh in 2050, as projected by the … [continued]
Now even 3M is getting into the solar biz. The huge Minnesota company is famous for the Post-It Note and other mainstays of Western civilization, but now their excellent materials scientists have been put to work creating a reflective foil that can be used to make the (already rather cheap) … [continued]
