{"id":58758,"date":"2021-07-26T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58758"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:50:57","slug":"some-inconvenient-questions-open-letter-to-the-politicians-responsible-for-the-ecological-transition-in-spain-and-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58758","title":{"rendered":"Some inconvenient questions. Open letter to the politicians responsible for the Ecological Transition, in Spain and in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some inconvenient questions. Open letter to the politicians responsible for the Ecological Transition, in Spain and in Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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(First published\u00a0at the author\u2019s blog<\/a>. Translated with permission by Amelia Burke \/ Fabricants de Futur.)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:<\/p>\n

I am writing to you with the intention of raising a series of relevant questions regarding the current effort to undergo an Ecological Transition that must achieve the total decarbonization of Spain and Europe by 2050. With regard to what I have read on the subject, including the\u00a0Climate Change and Energy Transition Law<\/a>\u00a0itself, there are certain obscure points in the announced plans that I think should be clarified, due to their great relevance.<\/p>\n

Allow me to get straight to the point. These are the questions:<\/p>\n

1.- We know that a large amount of critical material will be needed for the large-scale deployment of renewable energy systems intended to be implemented. We also know that there is not enough material to allow such deployment on a global scale. Do you contemplate an alternative plan, in case of materials being in short supply when the time comes? In short, is there a Plan B for the Energy Transition?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The issue of the shortage of critical materials for the renewable transition has been well known for quite some time. A few days ago, the\u00a0International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report on these materials<\/a>, in which some curious things were shown. The most prominent are shown in these graphs, especially the one on the right.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the annual extraction of lithium is expected to multiply by 42 by 2040; graphite by 25; cobalt by 21; nickel by 19 and rare earths by 7. Please note that the IEA is not saying what will happen: it is saying this is what needs to happen, which is very different. However, is that increase possible?…<\/p>\n

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Some inconvenient questions. Open letter to the politicians responsible for the Ecological Transition, in Spain and in Europe (First published\u00a0at the author\u2019s blog. Translated with permission by Amelia Burke \/ Fabricants de Futur.) Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: I am writing to you with the intention of raising a series of relevant questions regarding the current […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-58758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58758","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=58758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}