Volt Rush
The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
Oneworld Publications · Print & ebook · September 12, 2023
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil.
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- Who it’s for
- Trace the new scramble for metals powering modern life—and the powers gathering around them.
- Genres
- Mining & Extraction Business, Energy Industry, Climate Change
- Published
- Oneworld Publications, September 12, 2023
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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.'
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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.
The New Kingmakers
Trace the new scramble for metals powering modern life—and the powers gathering around them.
Come here for
- The metals reshaping energy, technology, and global power
- A clear-eyed look at the race for greener resources
Expect
- A journey from remote mines to Chinese battery factories
- Climate ambition alongside the costs and rivalries of resource extraction
Where it sits
| Climate Change | 38% |
|---|---|
| Energy Industry | 30% |
| Mining & Extraction Business | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Technology
- Mining Technology
- Electrical Power
- Authors
- Henry Sanderson
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Published
- September 12, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Technology