Where will your Electric Car really come from?
Where will your Electric Car really come
from?
A study of the future availability of
metals vital to emerging technologies
An on-line lecture by Professor Frances
Wall of the Camborne School of Mines
Many countries including the UK have
ambitious targets for a change from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric
cars. The race is on, not only to get us to drive electric vehicles but to
manufacture the cars and batteries. Other technologies such as wind turbines
and a growing range of electronic devices are also needed for the sustainable
society. What is often forgotten is that
the raw materials need to come from somewhere. New electric vehicles, and our
other digital and clean technologies, need new metals. Not only do we need to
find and mine enough of the technology metals like lithium, cobalt and rare
earths, we need to make sure their production is contributing
to sustainable development, not detracting from it.
Professor Frances Wall is Professor of Applied
Mineralogy, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. She specialises in
technology raw materials, especially rare earth elements, with interests in
geology, processing, responsible sourcing and the circular economy. Frances has
been leading two international consortium research projects on critical metals
supply and now also leads a UK interdisciplinary Centre promoting the circular
economy of technology metals. Frances was named one of the 100 Global Inspirational
Women in Mining 2016 and awarded the William Smith medal of the Geological
Society of London for applied and economic aspects of geology in 2019.
This on-line event
takes place: 1st February 2021
7.30pm GMT
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