batteries, it's a metal mainly found the democratic republic of the congo. its mining has often been linked to inhumane working conditions and child labor people exposed to have suffered from lung disease or heart problems. then you have all the energy that is required to make it better is especially production outside of require a lawful advantage in this means c o 2 emissions. how much exactly really depends on the electricity mix of the producing country. according to recent figures, making just a small battery for a car like this could cause more than 4 tons of c o 2. to give you an idea that's like driving a new diesel cardboard in the u for about 33000 kilometers. the good news is that emissions are thinking of battery production becomes more efficient and we shift towards cleaner energy sources. the bad news is that the batteries are losing capacity over time, so there are more and more movies that will also be more and more spent. batteries

. how do we deal with them? they should be connected and to active, recombined. and we used in different countries. this is a dot kang, she's worked on a report about this for greenpeace east asia. the battery that could be doing the vehicle if it's actually per day or like 5 years. that's good in reading that com. thank you. have enough performance? that's right. we can give spend cobb theresa 2nd life, for example, that can be turned into energy storage for windows solar. they could also pass you next camping trip, and i still have enough juice left to drive a forklift or a boat and just got it easy. batteries are already used for all these things today . data venue. and she really, i read using, using the original of products they could be recycling,

road years and to produce more products. let's get out the lego to understand how lithium ion batteries get recycled. it often involves melting, so essentially heating them until they melt. this uses lots and lots of energy, creates toxic emissions and lose us some of the materials. and that's why companies are coming up with new ways to recycle. you want to have as much as we can with high value materials that are, have taken a lot of effort to get out of the ground. we want to use those carefully and as many times as we can, this is who now fell side chief commercial officer lifecycle lithium, ion battery recycling company from canada. we basically come up with a process designed specifically for this to have high recovery rates of the material. and the 1st stage, what we call or spoke is a mechanical process that breaks down the batteries and separate some of the

fundamental materials. very, very simply speaking, this is what happens. the batteries are shredded while being submerged in a non toxic solution. this is important because it prevents them from catching fire and in the worst case, blowing up then materials like plastic, copper and aluminum. a separates from what the industry called the black mass. this contains the valuable materials, like cobalt, nicole and lithium. the 2nd part of the process is the hub and this is really a hydro metallurgy are wet chemistry process to process black mass into battery. great materials. what this means is that different chemicals get added to the black mass, which leads l different elements. these chemicals either make their way into the final products, or are we used in the process? so this actually doesn't produce any waste water. you end up with a black mass separated into single components like lithium, cobalt and nickel. so the end goal is that as we pull them out of the batteries,

we're putting them back into new batteries and that hasn't been cheap in achieve jetta. high scale there's there's elements of bit around the world. but we want to help to continue to drive that forward. it has to keep track exactly how many lithium ion batteries already get recycled mainly because they're often exported. but it is already happening more and more especially in asia, where most of them also produce and volumes of spend batteries grow. it will make even more financial sense to recycle them in the i do well, that way we hope that their materials could be used indefinitely. lithium ion battery, already one of the most stuff in the product there is already reuse today and ultimate april to recycle. we can optimize is better and better and more we have on

the market that's now the corona bars pandemic has shown how dependent europe is on raw materials from other parts of the world locked downs in asia, and border closures cause massive disruptions and the global supply chain forcing manufacturers to slower even hold production. a team of geologist is now working to find raw materials like lithium, rare earth and graphite in northern europe to allow the you to be less dependent on us. in particular, china. the team of pianos is in no way get to work. they've been commissioned by a company called nodes mining to search for critical material right here in northern europe. first, they need to take samples. so lines is really nice, made it actually here, because you can see like a thickness of them is it's pretty good for the or will it be back at the research

camp. the team examines hundreds of draw samples every month. we can face some of the mineralization here. the specific we more make the fans that we're looking at, which is where the high grade mineralization is. obviously change in the medium and phosphorus that we're looking at. because there's extra boxes is an essential rule material used in fertilizer. the large deposits of an 80 am, on the other hand, can be used in batteries that store energy within the next power grids. both elements are considered critical materials, along with the range of others, such as lithium f o graphite. but where does the term critical val material come from? a question we put to the founder of the mining company critical role,

the period determine which, which is basically comes from europe, has been invented by the u. because the europeans are dependent on today as far as the globe, particularly from supply from china. and which is about 6662 percent. china is the number one producer of critical role materials. in the case of rare china to provide more than 80 percent of global supply and processes, the largest online as cobalt, lithium, copper, and nichol. here, china has secured strategic supply commitments from other countries to gain a monopoly. these materials are important when you will energy, which are needed to stop noble roaming. so right now, exceeding global climate goals depends on chinese roll materials. take lithium

mining, like here in california. slipped in is used in batteries for electric cars to china, dominates the market. electric cars, wind and solar energy, all require a huge amount of critical materials. by 2040 lithium consumption is expected to be $42.00 times what it is now. the use of graphite cobalt. a nickel will increase massively well rate it will be consumed as 7 times the current range. huffman is another critical val. material that's in high demand or introduce an electric vehicles and generators. china recognize the signs of the times early on. now, europe is playing catch up. green and digital technologies currently depend on a number of scarce raw materials. we import lithium for electric cars,

platinum to produce clean hydrogen, silicon metal, for solar panels, 98 percent of the rear earth elements we need come from single supplier china. this is why we have proposed to create a european raw materials alliance. the u has committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 60 percent over the next 2 decades. so a year, a wide consortium of companies with headquarters in berlin has been charged with addressing the issue of materials. so you can rama to alliance has one monday to test the mandate to protect your own from any kind of supply interaction of raw materials in particular critical raw materials. and in this context, of course, our role is 1st and foremost, understanding the pattern and the mix of the volunteers. and here the role is

identifying respect to the companies that have the willingness and the capability to invest into raw material topics that can help closing the gap that we were just talking about. it will likely take 10 to 35000000000 euros of investment to mind the necessary raw materials. so companies like nor to mining that are funding themselves are especially welcome to the business. if you will find the good project you has the invest attends and it's, you know, it is very intriguing. we'll be doing. it's very excited because it's not only a mining project such it has become a geopolitical in the geo strategic thing. but it often takes up to 20 years to build a mind starting from the initial phase of exploration. nor to mining says it already has enough funding from investors and hopes to start mining much sooner for the

european union. it can't come soon enough and that's all for this edition of mate. thanks for watching. the news me. the news?

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