Für grüne Energie benötigte Mineralien könnten innerhalb von Jahrzehnten ausgehen

The transition away from fossil fuels could be held back by shortages of critical minerals needed to build solar panels, nuclear power stations, electric cars and wind turbines, researchers have found.

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology found that if the world attempted to build enough clean technology to limit climate change to 2C above pre-industrial temperatures, it would exhaust known reserves of several minerals within decades.

Reserves of tin, which is used in wind turbines and solar panels, could be exhausted by 2085, while cadmium, used in control rods of nuclear reactors, could run out by 2060. Indium, a crucial ingredient in specialist thin-film solar panels, could be used up by 2035.

The researchers said that their results showed the need to look for new reserves, particularly in under-explored regions such as Africa and central Asia, as well as scaling-up recycling, and substituting more common minerals for scarce ones.

Just Like how we will be running out of oil in the 70s…no wait 80s…no wait 90s…no wait 00’s….oh look, BP just found the largest oil reserve in 25 years.

As resources get more scarce, new tech is developed to extract and find new reserves. Just like how we would have run out of oil in the 60s if we just stopped developing extraction methods in the 30s.