The element is used in everything from missiles to armoured vehicles.
- Research Fellow, Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements & Critical Materials, University of Birmingham
Batteries moins chères, marché en plein essor, nouveaux usages : la révolution électrique semble cette fois autonome. Reste à savoir si elle ne déplace pas plus de problèmes qu’elle n’en résout.
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Helium, a critical material, could be in short-supply due to Qatar’s suspension of gas production.
The deal gives the US access to reserves of minerals used in key technologies such as batteries and electric vehicles.
For now, phosphate rock mining is dominated by China and Morocco.
Welcome to the new age of resource nationalism.
Electric vehicle batteries, wind turbine generators and hydrogen fuel cells are among technologies likely to be affected by the conflict.
China has a monopoly on rare earth metals, so where will the materials for the UK’s wind revolution come from?
To become an attractive prospect for electric car manufacturers, the UK needs to sort out its supplies of rare earths – Brexit, or no Brexit.
The industry itself is a big polluter, but lots of environmentally important technologies depend on steel.
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