
CLIMATE ONE: Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
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Energy Transitions
There is some definit of energy security. How worried are you that by reducing fossil fuel consumption and increasing renewable energy, we'll just be trading dependence on one set of resources for another? So as usual in these things, it's more complicated than that. What we're high lighting here is about critical minerals, one aspect of those energy transitions. And what we see is that the energy systems of to morrow, and indeed the energy system of today, are more mineral and metal intensive than in the past. We can guess that the systems of the future will keep going in that direction.
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