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Fully Charged Show illustrates that the global electronic waste is an opportunity for EV minerals. "We produce over $62,5 billion of electric waste each year." Let me explain why urban mining is important but insignificant in terms of EV deployment.💡 Link to the Fully Charged Show post. First of all, we do produce quite a staggering amount of electronic devices every year.  Around 1400 million smart phones, 160 milloin tablets, 210 million laptops, and 800 million e-cigarettes. 2,6 billion in total. All of them should be recycled at the end of their lifetime. @AidanRGallagher offers a solution: "Circular economy. We should make sure that we’re getting our resources to build these devices from previous devices."  So, how far towards the circular economy can we get if we recycled all the e-device battery minerals? Aidan Gallagher's interview Most of the batteries outside EVs are used for these four product categories. We can estimate the battery demand of each c

Primary energy consumption data reported by Our World in Data utilizes the substitution method to account fossil fuel consumption inefficiencies. It's not the most precise method but still a better representation than not accounting the fossil fuel inefficiencies at all.  Last decade our clean energy consumption market share increased 2.58%. The pace has significantly increased and during the first three years we have increased the clean energy share by 1.55%. I'm using the visualization to highlight the scale of energy transition which is still ahead of us. We can do it. Incremental progress during the last decade has been crucial and now the clean energy deployment can accelerate but we have to remind ourselves how precious resource the clean energy continue to be.