{"id":48023,"date":"2019-08-27T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48023"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:55:56","slug":"the-coming-copper-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48023","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Copper Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/science-the-coming-copper-peak\/\">The Coming Copper Peak<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/copper-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11124\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk told a closed-door Washington conference of miners, regulators and lawmakers that he sees a shortage of EV minerals coming, including copper and nickel (Scheyder 2019).&nbsp;&nbsp; Other rare metals used in cars include neodymium, lanthanum, terbium, and dysprosium (Gorman 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">***<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/search?author1=Richard+A.+Kerr&amp;sortspec=date&amp;submit=Submit\">Richard A. Kerr.<\/a>&nbsp;February 14, 2014.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/331\/6024\/1510.full\">The Coming Copper Peak<\/a>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp; Science 343:722-724.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Production of the vital metal will top out and decline within decades, according to a new model that may hold lessons for other resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you take social unrest and environmental factors into account, the peak could be as early as the 2020s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a crude way of taking account of social and environmental constraints on production, Northey and colleagues reduced the amount of copper available for extraction in their model by 50%. Then the peak that came in the late 2030s falls to the early 2020s, just a decade away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>After peak Copper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever it comes, the copper peak will bring change.&nbsp; Graedel and his Yale colleagues reported in a paper published on 2 December 2013 in the&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong>copper is one of four metals\u2014chromium, manganese, and lead being the others\u2014for which \u201cno good substitutes are presently available for their major uses<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If electrons are the lifeblood of a modern economy, copper makes up its blood vessels. In cables, wires, and contacts, copper is at the core of the electrical distribution system, from power stations to the internet. A small car has 20 kilograms (44 lbs) of copper in everything from its starter motor to the radiator; hybrid cars have twice that. But even in the face of exponentially rising consumption\u2014reaching 17 million metric tons in 2012\u2014miners have for 10,000 years met the world\u2019s demand for copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coming Copper Peak Elon Musk told a closed-door Washington conference of miners, regulators and lawmakers that he sees a shortage of EV minerals coming, including copper and nickel (Scheyder 2019).&nbsp;&nbsp; Other rare metals used in cars include neodymium, lanthanum, terbium, and dysprosium (Gorman 2009). *** Richard A. Kerr.&nbsp;February 14, 2014.&nbsp;The Coming Copper Peak.&nbsp; Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11836,2656,13275,11859,26615,26616],"class_list":["post-48023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-copper","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-peak-copper","tag-vital-metals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48024,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48023\/revisions\/48024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}