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"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

CHAPTER

The Myth of Recycling

One of the arguments against your analysis is that we can do an awful lot more recycling of metals. Could you discuss that please? Yep. Here's the funny part. My work is to look at the first generation only, a straight replacement of what we have. Less than 1% or no, we're at 1.1% of the vehicle fleet are electric vehicles. 98.0% are not. Renewable energy accounts for what is it at four or 5% of the primary energy pie? Whatever it is. But my point is the non fossil fuel system is yet to be constructed. The sorts of metals we want cobalt lithium, vanadium, they're all very exotic.

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