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- twitterfluechtling ( @twitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.de ) English11•1 year ago
tl;dr:
- It’s significant because the EU has phosphate on the list of critical raw materials
- Norway deposit is estimated 70b tons at least, the biggest in the world
- Phosphate is essential for fertilizers, car batteries and solar panels
- The new reserves are supposed to last for a 100 years
Good summary, thanks.
- Hedup ( @Hedup@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
For more on EU list of critical raw materials you can read here:
- Supermikea ( @Supermikea@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
Thanks for the tl;dr, kind stranger!
- Madis ( @madis@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
So the country with the most electric vehicles will start to build them? Makes sense.
- pixelbound ( @pixelbound@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Finally us Norwegians have an “excuse” to build green energy industries and transitioning from pegging our entire economy on a limited resource. Most likely nothing will happen because the oilers are fixated on extracting every single ounce of raw oil instead of actually progressing towards a more sustainable economical asset. I’d love to be proven wrong though