Key Material Resources Underpinning Modern Economies. Ed Conway, author of Material World, an Economist and Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2023 FT Business Book of the Year Award. Interview with Nate Hagens, youtube 105 minutes, 2024
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2-tWcFKfQ**
The Global Sand Crisis, Slice full doc, youtube 51 minutes. 2025
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhc4t9B18B4**
Not Enough Copper for Renewables transition, Univ of MIchigan report, May 2024
Copper can’t be mined fast enough to electrify the US | University of Michigan News
The Minerals price of the renewable energy revolution, article, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
**https://thebulletin.org/2024/12/murder-mayhem-and-minerals-the-price-of-the-renewable-energy-revolution/**
**Energy generation, Renewables and Water resources. Well written discussion of the conflict between Energy and Water. Generating Power uses about 10% of our Freshwater resources - this is a big problem.**
Water treatment & Transportation uses staggering amounts of energy, and accounts for 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions.
**https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en&tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgzQVzFRBBjhRRBSbWPzDCGkkhgKp**
Sand Mining - A Major Global Environmental Crisis | Forbes, youtube 14 minutes
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7XVp8hADcU**
The Blind Spots of the Green Energy Transition | Olivia Lazard | TED, youtube 18 min.
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za6dE5JrNB0**
Renewables are unsustainable - we don’t have enough minerals, youtube search,
**https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Simon+Michaux**