Today's newsletter involves one of my favourite--and trickiest--kinds of writing: science literacy, wherein I try to make a concept as accessible as possible without losing vital details.

So today we talk about green energy and global economics. This includes a walk-through of basic battery theory to get to why lithium-ion batteries are the way they are, and need the elements they need...

Even though mining those elements raises whole new ethical problems for us all.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/getting-to-know-the-new-extraction