{"id":6190,"date":"2023-02-10T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/enough-rare-earth-minerals-to-fuel-green-energy-shift\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:16:17","slug":"enough-rare-earth-minerals-to-fuel-green-energy-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hh2.hu\/en\/enough-rare-earth-minerals-to-fuel-green-energy-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cDecarbonization is going to be big and messy, but at the same time we can do it,\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit\u00a0global warming<\/a>, according to a new study that counters concerns about the supply of such minerals. With a push to get more electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric and nuclear power plants, some people have worried that there won\u2019t be enough key minerals to make the decarbonization switch<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n\n \n

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Rare earth minerals, also called rare earth elements, actually aren\u2019t that rare. The U.S. Geological Survey describes them as a \u201crelatively abundant.\u201d They\u2019re essential for the strong magnets necessary for wind turbines; they also show up in smartphones, computer displays and LED light bulbs. This new study looks at not only those elements but 17 different raw materials required to make electricity that include some downright common resources such as steel, cement and glass.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n\n \n

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A team of scientists looked at the materials \u2014 many not often mined heavily in the past \u2014 and 20 different power sources. They calculated supplies and pollution from mining if green power surged to meet global goals to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuel.<\/p>\n \n\n \n

Much more mining is needed, but there are enough minerals to go around and drilling for them will not significantly worsen warming, the study in Friday\u2019s scientific journal Joule concluded.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDecarbonization is going to be big and messy, but at the same time we can do it,\u201d said study co-author Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth. \u201cI\u2019m not worried we\u2019re going to run out of these materials.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Much of the global concern about raw materials for decarbonization has to do with batteries and transportation, especially electric cars that rely on lithium for batteries. This study doesn\u2019t look at that.<\/p>\n \n\n \n

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Looking at mineral demands for batteries is much more complicated than for electric power and that\u2019s what the team will do next, Hausfather said. The power sector is still about one-third to half of the resource issue, he said. A lot depends on how fast the world switches to green energy.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n\n \n

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There will be short supplies. For example, dysprosium is a mineral used for magnets in wind turbines and a big push for cleaner electricity would require three times as much dysprosium as currently produced, the paper said. But there\u2019s more than 12 times as much dysprosium in reserves than would be needed in that clean energy push.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDecarbonization is going to be big and messy, but at the same time we can do it,\u201d The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit\u00a0global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about the supply of such minerals. With a push to get more electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric and nuclear power plants, some people have worried that there won\u2019t be enough key minerals to make the decarbonization switch Rare earth minerals, also called rare earth elements, actually aren\u2019t that rare. The U.S. Geological Survey describes them as a \u201crelatively abundant.\u201d They\u2019re essential for the strong magnets necessary for wind turbines; they also show up in smartphones, computer displays and LED light bulbs. This new study looks at not only those elements but 17 different raw materials required to make electricity that include some downright common resources such as steel, cement and glass. A team of scientists looked at the materials \u2014 many not often mined heavily in the past \u2014 and 20 different power sources. They calculated supplies and pollution from mining if green power surged to meet global goals to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuel. Much more mining is needed, but there are enough minerals to go around and drilling for them will not significantly worsen warming, the study in Friday\u2019s scientific journal Joule concluded. \u201cDecarbonization is going to be big and messy, but at the same time we can do it,\u201d said study co-author Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth. \u201cI\u2019m not worried we\u2019re going to run out of these materials.\u201d Much of the global concern about raw materials for decarbonization has to do with batteries and transportation, especially electric cars that rely on lithium for batteries. This study doesn\u2019t look at that.   Looking at mineral demands for batteries is much more complicated than for electric power and that\u2019s what the team will do next, Hausfather said. The power sector is still about one-third to half of the resource issue, he said. A lot depends on how fast the world switches to green energy. There will be short supplies. For example, dysprosium is a mineral used for magnets in wind turbines and a big push for cleaner electricity would require three times as much dysprosium as currently produced, the paper said. But there\u2019s more than 12 times as much dysprosium in reserves than would be needed in that clean energy 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