The mining industry faces an interesting paradox. It is the lynchpin of the transition to a low-carbon economy, providing the materials that go into new grids and electric vehicles, yet miners’ extraction processes gorge on large amounts of power. Miners account for 6% of the world’s energy demand, and meet most of it with fossil fuels.
'Hydrogen Economy' Offers Promising Path to Decarbonization - 2 views
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Note that low-cost hydrogen relies on the availability of low-cost electricity. So there needs to be a good reason not to use electricity directly. This reason could be a need for a reduction agent, or a preference for combustion technologies. In any case, it will be a reverse world - gas more expensive than electricity.
ENERGY TRANSITION: Shipping supply chain calls for governments to help sector decarbonize - 1 views
Miners Begin Cleaning Up Their Act With Renewables | BloombergNEF - 1 views
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Miners, which account for 22% of global industrial emissions, are facing more pressure to decarbonize than ever before – from investors, customers in the technology and auto industries, and even consumers further downstream.
Copper scrap boasts decarbonization benefits amid challenging market dynamics - 1 views
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