Name: Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (en Inglés)
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Author: Beiser, Vince
ISBN: 9780593541708

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Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Vince Beiser

Editorial

Riverhead Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780593541708

Categorías

Economía medioambiental
Gestión medioambiental
Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (en Inglés)

Vince Beiser (Autor) · Riverhead Books · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (en Inglés)"

How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder--and how we can do better.An Australian multimillionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives to salvage e-waste amid nightmarish pollution. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing artificial intelligence to find metals in the Arctic. Train-robbing copper thieves in Chile. These are some of the people in the intensifying global competition to locate and extract the minerals essential for two critical technologies that will shape humanity's future: the internet and renewable energy. It's a race that will create new industries, generate enormous wealth, and destabilize the global balance of power. It could propel us to a more sustainable future --or plunge us into an environmental nightmare. In Power Metal, journalist and author Vince Beiser explores the Achilles' heel of green power and digital technology: that the manufacturing of our computers, cell phones, electric cars, solar panels, and wind turbines requires enormous amounts of increasingly rare materials--lithium, cobalt, copper, and others--the demand for which is skyrocketing. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to witness this race, reporting on the damage it is already inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and the ways in which we can minimize that damage. The result is a book that is both a gripping read and a sobering account of the battle between what civilization demands and what the planet can withstand. Power Metal is a compelling and important glimpse into this new, disturbing, and exciting world.