Critical mineral resources and the green tech revolution: criticality and critical materials in the next generation of renewable energy and energy storage technologies

Simon Martin Jowitt; Stuart Walsh; Zhehan Weng

Critical mineral resources and the green tech revolution: criticality and critical materials in the next generation of renewable energy and energy storage technologies

Simon Martin Jowitt, Stuart Walsh, Zhehan Weng

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

Abstract

New technologies and decreasing production costs have resulted in dramatic increases in renewable energy and energy storage. However, this change has also resulted in increased demand for the constituent materials and minerals vital to these new technologies. Many of these critical resources are scarce in nature or are limited by geopolitical tensions, adverse trade policies or other factors affecting their supply. As a result the rapid growth in new green technologies places them at increasing risk of a shortage of the critical minerals necessary for their operation.
This session considers integrated approaches to issues around mineral criticality for renewable energy and energy storage technologies. We welcome contributions focusing on economic geology, resource estimation, policy assessment, mineral extraction, byproduct recovery, recycling, urban mining, and reprocessing of waste materials.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union 2019 - San Francisco, United States of America Duration: 9 Dec 2019 → 13 Dec 2019 https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

Conference

Conference	Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union 2019
Abbreviated title	AGU 2019
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	San Francisco
Period	9/12/19 → 13/12/19
Internet address	https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Critical mineral resources and the green tech revolution: criticality and critical materials in the next generation of renewable energy and energy storage technologies. / Jowitt, Simon Martin; Walsh, Stuart; Weng, Zhehan.
2019. Abstract from Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union 2019, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

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