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Renewable Energy's Biggest Challenge - Daniel Yergin
https://youtube.com/shorts/l60CYUDtG2Y
So electric cars uses 2.5 x as much copper as a regular car. And copper mining can't meet that need in time so we're looking at decades of artificial EV scarcity. It's the 15 minutes city plan again, pushing cars out of your reach. Also China is investing heavily in all of this green energy stuff because they're importing 75% of their oil and don't want to be cut off like Japan was right before World War II.
https://youtube.com/shorts/l60CYUDtG2Y
So electric cars uses 2.5 x as much copper as a regular car. And copper mining can't meet that need in time so we're looking at decades of artificial EV scarcity. It's the 15 minutes city plan again, pushing cars out of your reach. Also China is investing heavily in all of this green energy stuff because they're importing 75% of their oil and don't want to be cut off like Japan was right before World War II.