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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

by Sanderson, Henry
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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.

'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we've come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the week

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, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a 'greener' world.

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BrandOneworld Publications
Pub dateSep 12, 2023
ISBN-100861546199
ISBN-139780861546190
Paperback288.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions7.8 × 1 × 5.1 in
Weight2 lb
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