An
incredible 38% of all water produced in emerging market countries is lost to
leakage from poor infrastructure, waste, and theft. Smart infrastructure aimed
at addressing this problem could prove to be the most significant solution to
water scarcity and has the potential to save $12.3 billion each year if fully
implemented.
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As we move towards a consumer society that's based more on experiences, on status stories, on the ephemeral-and in which, for many, time is now the only true scarcity-expect perks and privileges to become an integral part of every B2C industry and sector.
Copper scarcity on the horizon? - 1 views
Making the business case for smart water - 0 views
Home 2025: GE's Appliances of the Future - 0 views
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GE has imagined the technological enhancements that will change the way we live and how our homes will look a dozen years from now after studying trends in advances in food science, demographic shifts, ecological issues, healthcare services, water scarcity and home delivery.
Wealth is key for marriage, study claims - Telegraph - 0 views
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"Here we show that if men are abundant, this will influence the market value of their desired traits, that is, women can demand more. This aspect, namely individual decision making as a function of the mating market (local abundance or scarcity), has been relatively neglected within the literature on human mate choice."
The Oil Drum: Europe | Minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements... - 0 views
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If we keep following the ruling paradigm of sustained global economic growth, we will soon run out of cheap and plentiful metal minerals of most types.
Water scarcity and rising energy costs threaten mining industry - 0 views
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EY, the consultancy, said affordable water and energy should now be viewed as one of the 10 biggest problems for miners. The threat was particularly acute in South America and Africa, it said. These continents are significant in the global supply of many metals, particularly copper.
Significantly more efficient copper extraction with hydrogen peroxide - 0 views
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"The use of hydrogen peroxide can solve an old mining problem while significantly increasing the amount of copper extracted from the ore. Certain impurities such as iron sulfides (which include pyrite) have been difficult to remove until now. A new technology based on hydrogen peroxide now offers a solution. Using a small copper and gold mine in Australia as an example, Evonik developers have demonstrated that the technology works on an industrial scale and can increase the copper yield by roughly ten percent."
Causes and Effects of Increasing Global Copper Demand - 0 views
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"This demonstrates that copper is much more valuable than you may have thought; we need to urgently develop alternative materials to replace it in some common applications (e.g., electronics), as even with improved recycling there will be insufficient copper resources in a few decades."
World risks shortage of materials for EVs and wind turbines without agreements for gree... - 6 views
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Another one in a series of studies on this topic. This one predicts an 87,000% increase in the demand for battery materials which is not very helpful. Exponential extrapolation from a small basis over a long time horizon can basically come up with any growth figure. The logistic growth curve is a much better and proven model for technology transitions. -
"Demand for cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, fuel cells, and nuclear reactors is set to explode in the coming years as countries around the world invest heavily in greening their economies".
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Orginal source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/30 (though (also behind a paywall) and http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/50598. The latter mentions the 87000% figure referred to in the above comment.
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