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Sep 2022
33m 37s

Promise and Peril at the Bottom of the S...

The New York Times
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The adoption of electric cars has been hailed as an important step in curbing the use of fossil fuels and fighting climate change. There is a snag, however: such vehicles require around six times as many metals as their gasoline-powered counterparts. A giant storehouse of the necessary resources sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But retrieving them m ... Show More
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