Lithium, often referred to as “white gold,” is among the most sought-after raw materials in the world. But what’s so special about it? Can it be the key to a sustainable future? What environmental cost does this metal have? These are some of the questions that #EuronewsTechTalks gathered from the audience and asked Benjamin Sprecher and Jean Paul Gueneau de Mussy. 🎧 Tune in to the podcast hosted by James Thomas and produced by Alice Carnevali to learn more. https://lnkd.in/daKV5q75
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Podcast about the importance of strategic (and critical) raw materials and the issues related to their extraction and subsequent processing. https://lnkd.in/eawhCFWS
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Day 3 of LinkedIn posts. I had scheduled something that I wrote yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared! Oh well! Instead of writing everything, I'm just going to do something simple and recommend a podcast. It's called The Great Simplification and I have found it to be an immensely valuable resource. The host, Nate Hagens, is such a gentle, intelligent, and skilled interviewer, who really helps his guests bring their ideas to life. The podcast is all about simplifying the complex issues we face and making sense of the world we're living in. I wrote yesterday about 'peak oil', which means a decline in our global production capacity of liquid fossil fuels. This presents us with a huge challenge, but a common response is: 'we'll just replace fossil fuels with hydrogen and renewables'. Well, unfortunately it's not that easy. Our society suffers from two ailments called 'energy blindness' and 'minerals blindness'. We don't realise how much energy and how many resources go into creating the things we buy, the buildings around us, and the infrastructure we rely on. We're already coming up against very real physical limits on the amount of metals we can extract to create renewable infrastructure. There simply isn't enough mining capacity or raw materials to create an energy system that produces the amount of energy we're using every day. The crazy stat: we'll have to go from 19 terrawatts of power to 5 terrawatts. That's a quarter of our energy supply and energy is everything! Dr Simon Michaux outlines this with so many brilliant examples and a lot of good humour in this episode of The Great Simplification: https://lnkd.in/eBTxmsfR Give it a listen and let me know what you think in the comments. And even if you don't listen to it, let me know what this sparks in you!
Simon Michaux: “Minerals Blindness” | The Great Simplification
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How much do we believe and say about the energy transition is influenced by our politics, work and media? How much is really based on evidence? Without a facts based approach and balancing trade offs between least bad outcomes can we really navigate it successfully…. Marco Raugei discusses the complexity in the energy transition in episode 210 of the HC Commodities Podcast #commodities #energytransition Links below and here 🎙️ https://lnkd.in/gjPkUsgx
The HC Commodities Podcast | Ep 210 | The Complexity in the Energy Transition with Marco Raugei 🔊 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/d3bHRB-B The energy transition is complex. That complexity tends to be papered over with simplifications and beliefs, even myths, both within the sector and the broader public on both sides of the debate. Yet, to make the right investments and decisions as companies and societies, it requires careful analysis and ultimately managing the inherent trade-offs. In this episode, we zoom in on the reality of the energy transition, the science required and the competing philosophies. Speaking to our host Paul Chapman on this episode is Marco Raugei, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Oxford Brookes University. He is an Environmental Scientist with a PhD in Chemical Sciences and lectures on energy systems and Life Cycle Assessments. Marco has spent his career researching the very energy systems, particularly in transportation, that drive our economies today and in those of the future. 🎙Apple: https://lnkd.in/dFNHgy3R 🎙Spotify: https://lnkd.in/da9sNXCd #CommodityTrading #EnergyTrading #Commodities #EnergyTransition
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Check out Peter Gastreich's latest research note recapping his podcast with Westwater Resources CFO, Steve Cates. Discover how WWR is pioneering the first fully integrated graphite mining and processing operation in the US, securing key offtake agreements, and expanding their Kellyton project. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on our website for more insights. #SustainableInvesting #RenewableEnergy #EquityResearch #WTR #WaterTowerResearch
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There is a new podcast from our Hans-Böckler-Stiftung project analysing energy and climate policy in Russia and how it affects workers in coal regions. Many thanks for this insightful and important contribution from Olga Ustyuzhantseva and Mattia Dessì. #JustTransition
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📍 There are over 1300 abandoned historic metal mines in Wales alone, most of which are still surrounded by mining waste containing toxic metals, including lead. And while mine sites are known to be contaminated, little is known about the led concentration in surrounding areas or the impact lead has on food crops, animals and people. Researchers from the University of Nottingham are trying to find out the extent and effect of lead pollution from mine sites by collecting samples from mine sites and their surrounding areas. In our latest podcast, we sat with Andrea Sartorius, Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, to discuss findings from this research. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dxX8yNTe
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Should coproduction impact additionality claims for carbon removals? Coproduction is when a supplier of carbon removal credits produces additional revenue from another source. For example, a direct air capture facility that also produces hydrogen; or, as is the topic of today’s Reversing Climate Change episode, enhanced rock weathering that produces nickel. Most people agree that coproduction is good. However, it conflicts with financial additionality, which states that the carbon removal action would not take place were it not for the carbon credit. In this episode, Nori Cofounder Ross Kenyon interviews Eric Matzner, an alumnus of Carbon Removal Newsroom and Cofounder of Project Vesta who has a new venture called Metalplant. (This is Metalplant's podcast debut!) Their innovative project combines hyperaccumulator plants and enhanced rock weathering to extract nickel from soil and crushed rock while removing carbon from the air. Much of the conversation focuses on a possibly looming intellectual crisis in carbon removal: what does the industry do when it realizes that many of its methodologies are co-producing value besides carbon? Will it try to find a way to square that with conventional applications of financial additionality, or will they abandon or amend additionality to make sure co-producers aren't held down while the world desperately needs them to scale their operations? So much to talk about, and there will almost certainly be more on this topic in the future! Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gYmKuZyG
321: Metalplant's Debut! Enhanced Rock Weathering, Coproducing Nickel, & Additionality—w/ Eric Matzner, Cofounder of Metalplant
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I really enjoyed speaking with Eric Matzner on this episode. As carbon removal develops, I personally think there will be a tendency towards coproduction. Companies fully dependent upon carbon markets will be vulnerable to price fluctuation. Right now many carbon removal transactions are over-the-counter or mediated by a marketplace. Prices seem to be set by the seller and negotiated. In the future I believe we will see more liquidity and competition within grades of CDR, and suppliers will take prices rather than set them (not always, but for much of carbon removal I expect this to have an effect.) At that point, companies will want to have secondary (or even primary business lines!) uncorrelated or even anticorrelated from carbon pricing. That is how to build a robust and scalable CDR industry imho. These companies that can coproduce should be able monetize the net carbon removed. My hypothesis is that if these companies can fully monetize all of these value streams they will scale quickly and profitably and inspire loads of imitators, which is what we need to get to gigatonne scale. Applying financial additionality against these companies will slow carbon removal growth and not give us anything worth the slowed rate of PPM reduction. There is so much more to say about this, but Eric and I discuss this dynamic in detail in this episode of Nori’s Reversing Climate Change podcast. I highly recommend checking it out. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my own personal speculation!
Should coproduction impact additionality claims for carbon removals? Coproduction is when a supplier of carbon removal credits produces additional revenue from another source. For example, a direct air capture facility that also produces hydrogen; or, as is the topic of today’s Reversing Climate Change episode, enhanced rock weathering that produces nickel. Most people agree that coproduction is good. However, it conflicts with financial additionality, which states that the carbon removal action would not take place were it not for the carbon credit. In this episode, Nori Cofounder Ross Kenyon interviews Eric Matzner, an alumnus of Carbon Removal Newsroom and Cofounder of Project Vesta who has a new venture called Metalplant. (This is Metalplant's podcast debut!) Their innovative project combines hyperaccumulator plants and enhanced rock weathering to extract nickel from soil and crushed rock while removing carbon from the air. Much of the conversation focuses on a possibly looming intellectual crisis in carbon removal: what does the industry do when it realizes that many of its methodologies are co-producing value besides carbon? Will it try to find a way to square that with conventional applications of financial additionality, or will they abandon or amend additionality to make sure co-producers aren't held down while the world desperately needs them to scale their operations? So much to talk about, and there will almost certainly be more on this topic in the future! Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gYmKuZyG
321: Metalplant's Debut! Enhanced Rock Weathering, Coproducing Nickel, & Additionality—w/ Eric Matzner, Cofounder of Metalplant
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🎧Check out the teaser for episode 3 of Fastmarkets Fast Forward podcast. Andrea Hotter interviews Trafigura CEO Jeremy Weir on the challenges of energy transition for commodity traders. Learn why market fragmentation is a key obstacle. Listen and subscribe now: https://okt.to/qkgz2l Full episode dropping next Tuesday morning! #EnergyTransition #CommodityTrading #criticalminerals
Trafigura CEO Jeremy Weir calls out market fragmentation as biggest challenge facing energy transition - Fastmarkets
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In our latest podcast, we're joined once again by Dr Mike Jones, Managing Director of Impact Minerals Limited Minerals. Mike provides an in-depth update on the Lake Hope High Purity Alumina (HPA) project, which has recently secured $2.87 million in Federal funding. Key discussion points include: ➡️ The strategic significance of federal funding for Lake Hope’s pilot plant. ➡️ How Membrane Selective Technology (MST) is transforming HPA production. ➡️ Collaborations with CPC Engineering and Edith Cowan University to drive innovation. ➡️ Lake Hope’s industry-leading sustainability initiatives, including targeting zero-liquid discharge. ➡️ The commercial roadmap for 2025 and positioning within the global HPA market. Tune in for insights on cutting-edge advancements in the HPA sector and what lies ahead for Impact Minerals. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4fK6KMz Frank Bierlein Arron Canicais Stewart Walters Holly Walters Riley Maring MarketOpen Kristie Hannah #ImpactMinerals #HPA #MiningInnovation #Sustainability #Podcast
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1wGreat, if the ' harvesting' of precious metals, indeed, does not compound existing 'poverty'