{"product_id":"9781035425310-power-metal","title":"Power Metal","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOWER METAL\u003c\/b\u003e explores the crucial role that rare metals play in technology and energy and the global race to secure them for the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence - and how we can do better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Australian millionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles' heel of \"green power\" and digital technology - that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41690477264993,"sku":"9781035425310","price":18.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29940007.jpg?v=1725868480","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035425310-power-metal","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}