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Volt Rush
- Author
- Henry Sanderson
- Narrator
- Rory Barnett
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 September 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.
We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.
Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, and a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a “greener” world.
Critics Review
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“A vital contribution to the emerging literature that’s pulling back the curtain on energy realities.”
Wall Street Journal
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“Does a good job of getting the reader up to speed in terms of what goes into an electric battery and why we need to be cognizant of the environmental impacts.”
Irish Tech News
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“Makes a great contribution in understanding what a green future entails—and what costs it might involve right now.”
Foreign Policy
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“Rory Barnett’s narration strikes a hopeful tone in this evenhanded look at the past and future of green vehicles. With his clipped BBC accent…the message remains positive.”
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“The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world, and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one.”
Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author
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“A riveting guide to our perilous future.”
Ann Pettifor, author of The Case for the Green New Deal
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“This is a terrific book…What makes the book so compelling is the cast of colorful characters he meets and the insightful judgements he makes.”
James Kynge, editor at Financial Times China
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“We have become dangerously dependent on China which now dominates global battery supply. All this can change and Volt Rush shows us how.”
Clive Hamilton, author of Hidden Hand
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Details
- Author
- Henry Sanderson
- Narrator
- Rory Barnett
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212155076
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Electrical engineering, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Mining technology and engineering
Synopsis
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, and a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a “greener” world.
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