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Emmanuel Florac

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

#environment #energy #resources

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.”

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-race-for-copper-hots-up

The Race for Copper Hots Up

One unintended victim may be one of the biggest mining projects in British history

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The #AI #supply chain:

"It makes visible the #connection between an #engineer training an #algorithm in the #UK, a miner extracting #tantalum in #Kazakhistan, an engineer in #Mexico working in a #data centre, a #worker in #Taiwan #manufacturing GPUs and a worker in #Kenya dismantling e-waste"

source: https://twitter.com/ana_valdi/status/1747200486392950785

#economy #technology #supplyChain #resources #globalization #internet #software #hardware #gpu #labour #map #news

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#China's #population drops for second year, with record low #birth rate

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-population-drops-2nd-year-raises-long-term-growth-concerns-2024-01-17/

The country's retirement-age population, aged 60 and over, is expected to increase to more than 400 million by 2035 - more than the entire population of the United States - from about 280 million people currently.
The state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences sees the #pension #system running out of money by 2035.

Population reduction is good for the #environment. Perpetual growth is nonsense on a finite planet. Why not solve this problem now while we are still doing relatively well? I forgot, because it means work for politicians and they're not so good at that. Besides, many people don't want to change and adapt and believe that everything was better in the past. We used to cause the problems in the past that are now threatening to ruin our #future!

#economy #growth #news #statistics #children #youth #politics #earth #problem #civilization #humanity #capitalism #collapse #finance #resources

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#Nations don't get rich by plundering other nations

source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont-get-rich-by-plundering

Anyway, there are two more sophisticated cases you can make for the “imperial plunder” #theory of national wealth. The first is that continuing plunder is responsible for income differences between countries. The second is that plunder was necessary to initiate the process that eventually led to industrial #production and modern science. The first of these arguments is wrong; the second can’t easily be disproven, but there’s major reason for doubt.

#colonialism #imperialism #economy #history #politics #wealth #poverty #south #north #resources #finance #news

Nations don't get rich by plundering other nations

National wealth comes from ingenuity, hard work, good institutions, sound policy, political stability, and openness to foreign ideas and investment.

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

The Hump - by Ed Conway - Material World

#environment #climate #pollution #resources

The charts underline an important point. We use an extraordinary amount of fossil fuels each year (far, far more than most people appreciate). And the main message from this chart is that while we’ll certainly need to do a lot of mining to get the copper, lithium, cobalt etc we’ll need, that weight of “new” stuff will be far less than the weight of all the fossil fuels we’re no longer using.

But the chart, which begins at around 2020, seems to suggest that this is happening now.

In other words, far from increasing in the short to medium term, as I wrote in my book, it looks tantalisingly as if humanity’s material footprint is actually about to fall immediately.

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-hump

The Hump

In the coming years we will dig and blast more stuff from the earth's surface than ever before. "Peak stuff" won't be with us for some time...

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What's Behind the Rising #Conflict in Eastern #DRC

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/explainer-what-s-behind-the-rising-conflict-in-eastern-drc-/6690258.html

More than 100 armed groups operate in eastern DRC, an unsettled region where conflict has raged for decades but has escalated in recent months.

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Fueling the #insecurity is a complicated brew of geopolitics, ethnic and national rivalries, and competition for #control of eastern DRC's abundant natural #resources.

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"The DRC produces more than 70% of the world's #cobalt" and "holds 60% of the planet's #coltan reserves," the industry website #Mining #Technology reported in February, speculating that the DRC "could become the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age."

#politics #crime #problem #war #terror #corruption #economy #finance #economy #capitalism #humanRights #environment #news #military #Africa

Explainer: What's Behind the Rising Conflict in Eastern DRC

Complex mix of geopolitics, ethnic and national rivalries, and competition over the region's natural resources is fueling the violence

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This #AI #robot chemist could make #oxygen on #Mars

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03522-4

Researchers in #China have developed a robot chemist powered by artificial #intelligence (AI) that might be able to extract oxygen from water on Mars. The robot uses materials found on the red planet to produce catalysts that break down water, releasing oxygen. The idea could complement existing oxygen-generating #technologies or lead to the development of other catalysts able to synthesize useful #resources on Mars.

Sounds like the beginning of a horror science fiction story because the developers forget to tell the AI when it is finished. So the AI transfered the whole Mars to oxygen...

😱🚀🔴💭

#technology #future #news #science #space

This AI robot chemist could make oxygen on Mars

The system uses Martian materials to produce catalysts that release oxygen from water.

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Are we just wasting our last #resources to have some fun with #AI?

Microsoft’s water consumption rose 34 per cent between 2021 and 2022, according to its latest environmental report, highlighted by the Associated Press. It was up to almost 1.7 billion gallons.

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For each 5 to 50 prompts, or questions, put to #ChatGPT, it uses 500 millilitres of water, according to a paper that will be published by Professor Ren and his team later this year.

#environment #nature #problem #emissions #technology #news #earth

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

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