Volt rush : the winners and losers in the race to go green / Henry Sanderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanderson, Henry (Journalist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rare earth industry--Environmental aspects.

Rare earth industry.

Rare earth metals--Economic aspects.

Rare earth metals.

Clean energy industries.

Green technology--Economic aspects.

Green technology.

Physical Description:

vii, 275 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2023.

Summary:

A greener world won't come for free '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 McKibben,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.

Notes:

Originally published: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780861546190

0861546199

OCLC:

1396158831