Currently, global demand for cobalt and lithium for electric car batteries will increase almost 20-fold by 2050. Until then, developing a fossil-free energy source will require a lot of copper, aluminum and iron. the corresponding demand is likely to roughly double.<\/p>\n
Elements of rare earths will also be needed much more - necessary for wind turbines, for example. A new study now sheds light on the predictable increases in material consumption associated with climate change and describes how they can be mitigated.<\/p>\n
The study was led by the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and was published in\u00a0Nature Climate Change<\/i> . (Ulrich von Lampe, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Currently, global demand for cobalt and lithium for electric car batteries is set to increase almost 20-fold by 2050. By then, the development of a fossil-free energy source will require a lot of copper, aluminum and iron. the corresponding demand is likely to roughly double. There will also be a much greater need for rare earth elements \u2013 essential for wind turbines, for example. A new study now [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}