An electric car requires 6X more minerals than a conventional car. A typical 1,000 lb electric car battery contains: 190 lbs of graphite130 lbs of nickel90 lbs of copper60 lbs of cobalt30 lbs of lithiumhttps://t.co/qIxyXnLmWQ pic.twitter.com/FGw842uUX4 — Brian Gitt (@BrianGitt) …
President Joe Biden is looking north for critical mineral supplies to meet government-inflated demand for clean-energy initiatives while the administration shuts down major mining projects on American soil. In March, the president invoked the Defense Production Act to expedite the …
By – Pamela Williams It is never about doing the right thing with politicians, is it? Or, for that matter, about upholding the rule of law. As the Biden Administration rushes us into giving up vehicles powered with gasoline, no …
An EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds. Providing the refined minerals needed to fabricate this battery requires the mining, moving, & processing of >500,000 pounds of materials. That’s 20x > 25,000 pounds of petroleum that an internal combustion engine uses over …
In 2010, US military officials and geologists revealed that Afghanistan has huge reserves of minerals. These $1 trillion worth of mineral deposits have now slipped into the Taliban’s hands. Afghanistan is estimated to have the world’s biggest deposits of lithium …
Not known for its raw material endowment, Japan could now be in a position to establish a substantial rare earths reserve and drastically reduce its dependence on imports from China, currently the world’s most active producer and consumer of rare …
by JEFF DESJARDINS, VISUALCAPITALIST DRAFT LIST RELEASED BY FEDS ON FEB 16TH, 2018 The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. What do cobalt, uranium, helium, titanium, and fluorspar have in common? According to the U.S. government, these are …