At the COP23 climate meeting, electric shuttles moved delegates across town, showcasing sustainable energy and green technology. But for farmer Zhang Tuling, green technology means dusty air and stunted crops.
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It takes nine years for an electric car to be greener than a diesel car, on average. |
Mr Zhang lives near a large mine in northern China that extracts a key ingredient for batteries: natural graphite. He can testify to the hidden social and environmental toll of lithium-ion batteries - the very devices that enable renewable energy storage solutions, electric vehicles and mobile power.
The battery market is anticipated to be worth $100 billion by 2025. By 2040, batteries storing solar power for businesses and households will account for 57% of the world’s energy storage capacity.
Read the World Economic Forum story - “Batteries can be part of the fight against climate change - if we do these five things.”
(Privately owned and individually operated vehicles are the issue and the human community will have little or no impact on reducing its impact of climate change, at least from a transport point of view, until were can rid ourselves of the infrastructure that ensures the sustenance of a privately owned and individually operated transport system - we need a publicly owned and operated transport system that answers our private needs - Robert McLean)
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