Comments on: Book review – The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:34:07 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-95246Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:34:07 +0000/?p=13832#comment-95246[…] that constructing the needed infrastructure has an immense material footprint and will require large amounts of mining, he omits that, once built, we have to maintain and replace machines as they wear out, requiring […]

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]]>By: 书评：稀有金属之战 - 偏执的码农/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-94830Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:42:48 +0000/?p=13832#comment-94830[…] 详情参考 […]

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]]>By: Book review – Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-71823Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:04:56 +0000/?p=13832#comment-71823[…] reusing batteries, and the prospect of reopening mines in Europe (an idea Pitron also proposed in The Rare Metals War). Volt Rush has an excellent structure, with clearly-themed chapters logically flowing into each […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-40950Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:09:38 +0000/?p=13832#comment-40950[…] until the last chapter to mention the very polluting mining and refining of oodles of minerals and rare metals needed to build and maintain this high-tech infrastructure. For Bryce, nuclear, as a power-denser […]

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]]>By: John Hall/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-33080Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:46:40 +0000/?p=13832#comment-33080This is why I get mad when I read about Jeremy Rifkin and his Third Industrial Revolution.Back in the 1980’s,Rifkin filed a ton of lawsuits against Biotechnology.He was all worried about of it and it’s impact on society and the enviorment.Now with his Third Industrial Revolution,Rifkin’s
doing the exact opposite.He’s traveling the world,getting people all excited and anxious to make
the switch to renewable energy.The problem is Rifkin’s not raising concerns and issues with
renewable energy,especially in this book”The Rare Metals War”.They should do a TV show on
this to warn people about the consequences of this.

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]]>By: Book review – The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-31301Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:14:04 +0000/?p=13832#comment-31301[…] to renewable energy, the authors correctly mention that a brave new frontier awaits: the trade in rare metals. My other concern, that of extraction and ultimately depletion of non-renewable resources seems not […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-20702Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:37:55 +0000/?p=13832#comment-20702[…] been meaning to read this book for ages. With the recent publication of Guillaume Pitron’s The Rare Metals War, now is the right time. Thus, this is the first of a two-part review dealing with these […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-19160Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:59:07 +0000/?p=13832#comment-19160[…] is necessary. She agrees that the shift to renewable energy requires infrastructure that needs tremendous amounts of diverse metals. However, as a detour into the design of wind turbines shows, predicting which ones will be needed […]

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]]>By: Book review – Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-19159Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:57:32 +0000/?p=13832#comment-19159[…] Putting these ideological differences aside for a moment, there were some interesting bits I did take away from this book. The book drives home the point how interconnected these industries are with pretty much everyone having fingers in each other’s pies. Hiscock also lifts a corner of the veil on the little-known business sector of global commodity traders that aim “to keep the lowest possible profile” (p. 39) – the upcoming The World for Sale promises to rip the veil off this completely. And though sand does not feature here, he does briefly mention the importance of rare earth elements that “one day may prove the biggest mining bonanza of them all” (p. 2). I discuss these more in-depth in reviews of The Elements of Power and The Rare Metals War. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/04/29/book-review-the-rare-metals-war-the-dark-side-of-clean-energy-and-digital-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-19158Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:55:25 +0000/?p=13832#comment-19158[…] of which they remarkably do not even mention: the need for a vast infrastructure constructed from non-renewable materials. Speaking of which, second, we need to use renewable resources exclusively and phase out […]

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