🪫 Residential heat pump sales increased by 225%, with approximately 600 GW sold ⚡️ 🚙 Electric car sales increased by nearly 2 000%, with over 25 million sold over the period ☀️ Solar PV capacity additions increased by more than 400%, with almost 1 terawatt (TW) of capacity added, nearly equivalent to the total installed electricity capacity in the European Union. It is included in the new IEA Net Zero Report released today and provides some quite astonishing #data. The acceleration in the deployment of #greentech is unquestionable, with a faster rise taking place since the global #energy crisis triggered by Russia invasion of Ukraine. This is not a super glamour, fancy, coloured chart… BUT… it is best synthesis for any positive expectations in terms of a cleaner energy #future. (2) we may want to avoid making the same mistakes we made with fossils, aiming for a sustainable end-to-end production chain with fewer geopolitical impacts. What really matters are two facts: (1) we MUST to change our energy matrix to a less carbon-intensive one. Third, metals production is for infrastructure not consumption, perhaps one of the factors influencing the lower volume. Secondly, I think about the amount of sulfur and ash, mainly from coal, that will no longer go into the atmosphere. First, already mentioned here, the tailings that comes from these minerals. There are several facts underlying this analysis. We tend to want to see superlative numbers in everything, preferably with a sign of growth on the side. But don't let yourself get trapped on that.

This volumetric comparison of the change in the production matrix is significant in terms of numbers. That is just lithium - see next post on rare earths. While it’s cheap and effective, the process needs a lot of water, estimated at 500,000 gallons per ton of lithium extracted. Current estimates are there is only 39 million extractable tons, and as we produce ' easy reserves' the later ones require more work - ie mining - ie heavy machines using energy.Ĭhile and Argentina extract lithium from salt flats. However you need to extract around 100 tons of ore to get a ton of Lithium - so 250 million tons of mining. It is forecast that by 2030 this quantity will increase to approximately 2.5 million metric tons.

In 2020, the total demand for lithium worldwide amounted to 292 thousand metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent. What comes out of the ground is mostly oil and it comes out under its own energy - water is separated and re-injected. The world needs for example a LOT less lithium so at first blush this may seem to make sense.īut when we extract Oil - we extract oil. Granted we extract a large weight of, say, oil - like 4.3 billion tonnes.

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