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Volt Rush

The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

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Volt Rush

By: Henry Sanderson
Narrated by: Rory Barnett
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In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.

We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.

Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, and a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a "greener" world.

©2022 Henry Sanderson (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Engineering

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Excellent book which highlights the challenges of getting the required metals to enable the world to built batteries for the electric revolution.
Sadly the mining of battery metals is far from green in many circumstances, with significant damage to local environments and massive carbon dioxide pollution. The West has made a significant strategic and environmental errors in allowing production of batteries and their required metals to be handled for the most part by Chinese companies. This is a wonderful book which is highly educational and also enjoyable to listen to.

Critical metals for the battery supply

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Sanderson takes you on a journey into the hidden corners of the battery materials supply chain and uncovers the powerful characters that have made their fortunes exploiting the earth's most critical minerals. Required reading for any investor in the mining, battery and electric car industries.

Required reading!

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