缓解清洁能源的肮脏成本

Mitigating clean energy’s dirty costs A journalist advocates for sustainable mining and empowering affected communities Elias T. Ayuk Lithium-ion batteries have become a crucial source of power for technologies such as electric vehicles, smartphones, medical equipment, drones, industrial robots, and children’s toys. The production of these batteries is highly globalized, with the raw material being mined in one location, refined in another, assembled elsewhere, and then sold globally. Nicolas Niarchos’s The Elements of Power is a thought-provoking story about the global supply chain of lithium and other critical minerals needed to support the clean energy transition, to achieve global climate goals, and to meet commitments to reduce the global carbon footprint. …