As posted to the Climate One YouTube page on 7/17/23

Run Time 58 minutes, 47 seconds (when beginning at Time Stamp 21:33)

Climate One clip description:

Demand for lithium ion batteries is expected to grow 500% by 2030, and the race for raw materials is on. Lithium mines around the world are opening or expanding, while children as young as six in the Congo carry sacks of cobalt-laced rocks on their backs for less than $2 a day. Recycling presents promising opportunities, yet before millions of batteries can be recycled, they have to be made in the first place. At the same time, advances in battery chemistry continue to be made, and it’s not hard to imagine a near future when batteries don’t require lithium or cobalt at all. What’s the state of battery technology? And with demand ceaselessly increasing, how can we ever get to a truly sustainable supply chain?

Climate One Host Greg Dalton sits down in person with JB Straubel who co-founded Tesla Motors and spent fifteen years as its Chief Technology Officer. Now, he heads Redwood Materials, a company dedicated to creating a circular battery supply chain in the U.S.

(This is Blog Post #1410)

Redwood Materials has a mission is to build a circular supply chain to power a sustainable world and accelerate the reduction of fossil fuels.  Redwood Materials believe that this focus is critical to the future of transportation and the electric grid.

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