| Re: Earth just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5°C
I think the environmental crisis gonna worsen with the increase of electric vehicles since they require six times more minerals than conventional fossil fuel car, then there will be challenge of dumping the toxic batteries. Dumping the old tires is already one of the biggest challenge, search for tire dump-yards to see the unseen.
only time will tell how much damage the e-vehicles will cause after they start dominating the vehicle market. Apart from the environmental concerns, a lot more is also involved which we are witnessing as quickly changing economical and political situation worldwide which we can not discuss publicly i guess. Quote:
The International Energy Agency said in May that global supplies of lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements needed to increase sharply or the world would fail in its attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Three countries — China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Australia — currently account for 75% of the global output of lithium, cobalt and rare earths.
The average electric car requires six times more minerals than a conventional car, according to the IEA. Lithium, nickel and cobalt are crucial to batteries. Electricity networks also require huge amounts of copper and aluminum, while rare earth elements are used in the magnets needed to make wind turbines work.
The US government has reportedly estimated that lithium deposits in Afghanistan could rival those in Bolivia, home to the world's largest known reserves.
"If Afghanistan has a few years of calm, allowing the development of its mineral resources, it could become one of the richest countries in the area within a decade," Said Mirzad of the US Geological Survey told Science magazine in 2010.
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19th August 2021, 10:12
