Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 12:03:51 +0000

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium. Lithium resources are concentrated in locations that have […]

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Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:03:50 +0000

Hunt for cause of massive South America power outage begins

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and tallied the damage from the unforeseen disaster.

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