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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Energy Infrastructure Scaling - Materials Needed

Lithium is 900 percent more costly than it was a few years ago. There's an exponential driver there on materials needed for any energy infrastructure scaling right. If you want to move to renewables for the grid you still need a lot of storage because of intermittency and you need all the materials necessary to make windmills, solar panels or whatever other physical technology go.

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