We could need 6 times more of the minerals used for renewables and batteries. How can we avoid a huge increase in mining impacts?
- Written by: Rusty Langdon, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
We are seeing the biggest changes in our energy and transport systems since industrialisation. By 2026, global renewable energy generation is expected to match total fossil fuel and nuclear output. Building the wind and solar farms, batteries and electricity networks we need to run our system on renewables will use a huge array of mined minerals,...
