How a clean energy future is colliding with mining’s dark past

Grist
By Lylla YounesSep 22, 2022, 10:45 am176 pts
To get the United States running on clean energy will require a lot of metal: A single electric vehicle battery pack could contain around 8 kilograms of lithium, 14 kilograms of cobalt, and 35 kilograms of nickel. A wind turbine can contain more than 4 tons of copper. Over the next several decades, global…

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