Volt Rush

'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 weekWe 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.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Sanderson, Sanderson Henry
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780861543755
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-375-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Geopolitics, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Electrical, Social forecasting, future studies, Automotive technology and trades, Energy technology & engineering, Energy industries & utilities, Energy Efficiency, Automotive technology & trades, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Energy resources, Energy technology and engineering, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering, Energy industries and utilities, Electric motors, Power generation & distribution