Volt rush the winners and losers in the race to go green /
"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 scra...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oneworld Publications,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | "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. "--OverDrive. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780861543762 0861543769 |