The smart metals required by electric vehicles, second generation wind turbines and other clean technologies cannot be downloaded from the iTunes Store. Dysprosium and neodymium have to be extracted from the earths’ crust by mining companies.  You may have already known this. My teenage green-minded god-daughter did not.  Berating me for my work with the mining industry, she wanted to know how a clean-tech advisor could possibly be dirtying his hands in the extractive industries. I explained. 

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