Dr. Simon Michaux: “Minerals and Materials Blindness"”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Is There a Right Answer to the Wrong Question?
Welle: I am in favor of moving towards largely renewables. The question is, what is our society going to look like? What how many people? What sort of living standards do we have? But my question to you is, under those scenarios, the optimistic, let's just transition to a 19 terawat or higher global society using mostly renewables. Wrote an essay called renewables a right answer to the wrong question. And so we simply don't have the time that existing mines are not producing enough lithium and other metals for batteries by 2040. A study ta thay show the different chemistries of what it will likely be in 20 forty.
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