The Race for Copper Hots Up - by Ed Conway - Material World

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So the supply side of things is challenging. But then there’s the demand side. Copper is perhaps the single most important metal in the energy transition. As I wrote in the conclusion of the book, “On the basis of one calculation, we will need to mine more copper in the next 22 years than we have in the entirety of the past 5,000 years of human history.”

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