A sample of where the “IRA” money is going: The Department of Energy is conditionally planning to lend $700 million to an Australian company, Ioneer, to create a “massive lithium mine in western Nevada,” reports Jeff St. John for Canary Media. (The company will lead an international consortium.) Lithium is a material critical to the…
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Does Biden Want Minerals But No Mines?
“Biden Wants Minerals, but Mine Permitting Lags,” says a headline in E&E News‘s Greenwire. And the Washington Post asks: “Is Sustainable Mining Possible? The EV Revolution Depends on It.” If the minerals for electric vehicles are to be available, overly strict and lengthy environmental reviews must be curtailed or we must rely on China (and…
Unpleasant Truths about Minerals for Electric Vehicles
Will the minerals needed for electric car production come from the U. S . or (more likely) overseas? Maxine Joselow writes in the Washington Post: “Prices of key minerals are skyrocketing amid the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, potentially increasing the cost of electric vehicles and other technologies crucial to the clean energy transition….