"Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now," the study said.

“Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now,” the study said.

    • Lee 🌏
      1•6 months ago

      @LovesTha @NotMyOldRedditName @Hypx
      I heard an interview with the boss of that company, and he was asked why aren’t others doing this? “Industry Inertia,” he put it down to.
      When supply chains, expertise, manufacturing machines, techniques, and decades of data on reliability and performance are established, it’s hard to change all that inertia.

      • @NotMyOldRedditName
        2•6 months ago

        The first person to do it also incurs a higher upfront cost as there isn’t the same level of scale to bring costs down.