Sulfuric acid: the next resource crisis that could stifle green tech and threaten food security: SIAATH/Shutterstock Without sulfur in the form of sulfuric acid, industries would struggle to produce the phosphorus fertilisers that raise farm yields or extract the essential metals used in everything from solar panels to electric car batteries. Yet a problem looms, …
How large miners and states stifle local capital and innovation in DR Congo: Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, at the entrance of one of the mines which collapsed following torrential rains trapping dozens of artisanal miners in September 2020. Photo by Stringer/AFP via Getty Images Over the last few decades, African governments have removed …
Onshore wind farm restrictions continue to stifle Britain’s renewable energy potential: StayArt media/Shutterstock Boris Johnson seems to have had a change of heart. Despite once saying that wind turbines couldn’t “pull the skin off a rice pudding”, the prime minister recently announced his intention to turn the UK into “the Saudi Arabia of wind power”, …