Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are We Going to Recycle the First Generation of Metals?
Most of the non-fossil system has not been constructed yet, like less than one percent of vehicles are leaving now. So many of these things are going to be so diffuse that the energy required to effectively recycle them would be gargantuan. We need about 4.3 billion tonnes of copper for the first generation of electrical, nonrenewable technology systems including everything stitched together. And our existing production capability is simply, it's not up to scratch. But neither are our reserves.
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