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Développement durable Prévision Matériaux stratégiques Aspect économique Mineral industries Environmental aspects Mineral industries Social aspects Mines and mineral resources Environmental aspects Mines Industrie Aspect social Métaux des terres rares Politique gouvernementale Rare earth metals Government policy Strategic materials Economic aspects Sustainable development ForecastingSummary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVAScheyder, Ernest
Summary: Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 SCHAmrith, Sunil
Summary: In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "How the metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder-and how we can do better. An Australian multimillionaire's plan to mine the ocean floor. Garbage pickers in Nigeria risking their lives to salvage e-waste amid nightmarish pollution. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing artificial intelligence to find metals in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books