
Vince Beiser
Journalist and Author at Freelance
Writer at Power Metal
Journalist & author of "Power Metal," the book and newsletter on real costs of "green" energy. https://t.co/wMvRTzmoQ3
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2 days ago |
powermetal.substack.com | Vince Beiser
You might not believe in climate change, or that cars are a huge contributor thereto. You might not care about the environmental costs of mining the metals we need to build motor vehicles. But there’s one thing we can all agree on: cars are a huge money-suck. In fact, those totems of American life are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the average American.
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1 week ago |
powermetal.substack.com | Vince Beiser
By far the most infamous problem involving critical metals is the children working in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. That single country produces the bulk of the world’s supply of this battery metal. Those kids mostly toil in the country’s informal, small-scale artisanal mines, which produce an estimated 10 to 20 percent of the DRC’s cobalt. But conditions are supposed to be much better in the DRC’s officially licensed, corporation-operated industrial mines.
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2 weeks ago |
powermetal.substack.com | Vince Beiser
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1 month ago |
powermetal.substack.com | Vince Beiser
Last week, a new crack appeared in the wall of China’s control of an important critical metal. So far it’s a small one, but significant because it concerns a type of rare earth metal the production of which China doesn’t just dominate—China produces essentially all of it.
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