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In pursuit of green [[energy]] technology, we need a significant amount of scarce metals. | In pursuit of green [[energy]] technology, we might need a significant amount of scarce metals. | ||
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[https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/mineral-requirements-for-clean-energy-transitions This article] is a good start, but we should try to quantify the situation more rigorously for "full replacement of fossil fuel energy" scenarios. | |||
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==Reserves and production== | |||
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TODO: explain the flexibility of mineral reserves (i.e. more can be recovered but more expensively) and how there's still an ultimate limit (maybe show some asymtotic graph, and/or write specific notes about particular minerals and going beyond their known reserves | |||
TODO: maybe convert some of these mineral names into wikilinks, after building their pages. Don't want too many red links right now | |||
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<tabs><tab name="Totals"> | |||
Totals might be useful for other calculations on the wiki. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
!Mineral | |||
!Global reserves | |||
!Global production | |||
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</tab><tab name="Per person"> | |||
Same statistics, but imagine that everything was split evenly between 8 billion people (world population). Hopefully that'll make things a bit easier to visualize. | |||
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{| class="wikitable" | |||
!Mineral | |||
!Global reserves, per capita | |||
!Global production, per capita | |||
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</tab></tabs> | |||
These tables are not filled in yet. Please join the {{talk}} if you have an idea how to gather data efficiently. | |||