By Jeremy Williams Last week I reviewed the book The Seaweed Revolution, which I very much enjoyed. It mentions a vast range of uses for seaweed, some in detail, some in passing. One that caught my eye was the use of seaweed as a building material. It only gets a couple of paragraphs, so I bookmarked it to go and […]
By Jeremy Williams The world needs more metals, especially the ones necessary to the clean technology revolution. And yet “mining is one of the planet’s most polluting and deadly industries”. That’s the conundrum at the heart of Christopher Pollon’s book Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places. Because it’s so damaging, and because the most valuable resources […]
Illustration of tandem silicone and perovskite. Graph credit: Eike Köhnen / HZB. By Anders Lorenzen The rapidly expanding solar PV technology has experienced significant technological advances in recent years , as scientists have experimented with new and innovative materials. It is believed solar cells built from silicone, the material that most of the world’s solar panels consist of, has reached […]
The President and CEO of Swedish mining company LKAB Jan Mostrom and Sweden’s Energy Minister Ebba Busch host a joint news conference at LKAB in Kiruna, Sweden upon the discovery of Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals. Photo credit: TT News Agency / Jonas Ekstromer. By Anders Lorenzen The Swedish state-owned mining company, LKAB, (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag) has announced […]