New investment firm aims to scale up urgently needed battery materials

Published on November 29, 2023

Switching the global economy to run on clean energy instead of fossil fuels depends on a massive ramp-up in minerals extraction to supply batteries, solar panels, transmission lines and more. This has a lot of people worried that a lack of access to minerals will eventually hold back progress on clean energy. But the…

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