Description
| Product ID: | 9780861543755 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Volt Rush |
| Subtitle: | The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green |
| Authors: | Author: Henry Sanderson |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Social forecasting, future studies, Social forecasting, future studies, Energy industries and utilities, Energy, Energy resources, Climate change, Energy technology and engineering, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Electric motors, Energy efficiency, Mining technology and engineering, Energy industries & utilities, Energy, Energy resources, Climate change, Energy technology & engineering, Power generation & distribution, Electric motors, Energy efficiency, Mining technology & engineering |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A greener world won't come for free In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars. ''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 week 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oneworld Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Oneworld Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-28 |
