It’s Time For Us To Tell The Truth About Mining

From Transport Evolved.

We’re told over and over again that there just aren’t the resources to electrify transport, that the mining is causing untold damage, and that there’s no way to fix it. But is that true?

Kate digs in, and takes a deep look at mining, resources and whether we really can electrify transportation.

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00:00 – Introduction
01:12 – Support the channel & some housekeeping
02:07 – Are there really enough resources?
06:10 – …but will we stick with the same chemistry anyway?
08:03 – How bad *is* the mining?
17:46 – How can we reduce the harm?
22:51 – The TLDR
20:17 – Thanks and Credits

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Script, Presenter, Audio: Kate Walton-Elliott
Camera, Editor, Colorist: Kate Walton-Elliott
Art and Animation: Erin Carlie
Producer: Kate Walton-Elliott
© Transport Evolved LLC, 2023

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https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2022
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/8/7/70/pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/ipcc-report-on-climate-un-scientists-call-for-course-correction.html
https://sea4value.eu/
https://bnef.turtl.co/story/evo-2021/page/4/2 – BloombergNEF Electric Vehicle Outlook
https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023-lithium.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1 ← How will the world produce enough?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00607-0 ← Circular Economy and Cobolt
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.202002718 ← High Nickel NMA – Cobalt free alternative to NMC and NCA
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/GC/D1GC01623G ← Litihum recycling by ultrasonication (as used by ReLib)
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions ← cites 75kWh / 8kg lithium figure (comes from GREET modelling, I think).
https://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/ ← EIA Annual coal report
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1252c/report.pdf ← 1968 report includes coal stripping ratio
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/71931 ← mining stripping terminology explanations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344922006917?dgcid=author ← Decarbonisation to drive dramatic increase in mining waste – options for reduction
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435118302927 ← extracting lithium from seawater.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100928 lithium extraction – social and environmental impacts
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.11.013 metals extraction – biome impacts.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115458 – lithium mining marine impacts
https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2020.1754596 – lithium mining general environmental impacts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344922006917?dgcid=author
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893 – circular economy strategies

http://energywatchgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/EWG_WEO-Study_2015.pdf – Solar panel predictions vs reality

https://batteriesnews.com/sodium-ion-batteries-expected-evs-ranges-500-km-catl-exec-says/
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/8/7/70/pdf
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2022

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