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Helen Thompson - On the Geopolitics of Energy

Planet A - Talks on Climate Change

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The Importance of Rare Minerals and Metals in Energy Transition

Even hydrogen even though that you know some have argued that that will then be the new oil so to speak hydrogen is also quite difficult to transport. But we're not there yet of course because we don't have to scale and it's far too expensive. China has dominated both the extraction of rare earths and then the supply chains around metal extraction or the metals that are important for the energy transition in other countries. The United States and the European Union trying in quite different ways I think to respond to that.

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