2023-10-14 05:55:03
Published on October 14, 2023 at 07:55. Modified on October 14, 2023 at 08:49.
Choosing between ravaging the Indonesian forest, with its luxuriant flora and fauna, but which in the long term could potentially recover, or using itself in the deep sea, where there is less life but where the damage is increasing. announce irreversible. This is basically the choice given to us, if we want to find nickel, complete the energy transition to be carbon neutral in 2050. A similar choice will have to be made for many other metals, because they almost all of them are missing.
“There are enough minerals on Earth, but miners will not be able, by far, to discover new deposits and put them into production to achieve the energy transition in the time required by the decarbonization programs in the States. -United and in Europe,” warned Lluis Fontboté, a professor of metallogeny at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), on Thursday in a farewell lesson, following his retirement.
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