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Satellite imagery of the lithium mining facilities in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. Created by Oton Barros (DSR/OBT/INPE). Photo: Coordenação-Geral de Observação da Terra/INPE via Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

What Green Costs

Deep in the salt flats of Chile lies the extractive frontier of the renewable energy transition.

Logic Magazine
Feb 11, 2020 · 11 min read

By Thea Riofrancos

Clean energy advocates envision an electrified home running on 100 percent renewable energy with a Tesla parked in its garage, solar shingles gleaming on its rooftop, and a smart meter dutifully collecting usage data and uploading…

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