(Photo Credit: Ivan Alvarado, Reuters; Caption: Atacama salt flat - Rockwood lithium plant) Sonny Banjac, a Vancouver based renewable energy and clean-tech consultant, has recently posted an excellent series of three articles on the role of Lithium in the development of energy choices. The articles cover the likely demand for Lithium over the next couple of decades Read More
A very interesting article in Bloomberg Business outlines why Electric Vehicles are shaping the future energy mix. There are some broad implications for mining and renewables. There are some interesting details in here (and a cool video) with projections on the cost of batteries and the amount of oil that will be displaced when EVs become Read More
By Simon Rees, for Creamer Media's Mining Weekly TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Despite the tie-up between the renewables market and the mining sector being dynamic and exciting, the high levels of upfront capital expenditure (capex) needed to install and operate renewable components and storage solutions remained a significant impediment to uptake. “There’s a lot of uncertainty during Read More
Figure 1: Business Model Approach to Renewables & Electric Vehicles for Mining Industry By: Arnoldus van den Hurk, CEO, r4mining.com, info@renewables4mining.com There are two large opportunities for renewable energy in mining: renewables for electricity and renewables for fuel. For both scenarios hybrid energy architecture can be found in the form of hybrid power grids (mini grids) and hybrid Read More
24/7's Renewable energies are meeting the Mining Industry Dr. Arnold van den Hurk, CEO, r4mining.com Renewable energy for mining presents two main benefits: it provides electricity and fuel for vehicles. In both forms, hybrid energy architecture can be found in both hybrid power grids (mini grids) and hybrid fuels vehicles. This new approach to analyze Renewables for Mining Read More
