Perché è rilevante per i materiali
Electrification is a grid problem before it is anything else. Every new wind farm, solar field, factory and data centre needs conductors, transformers and switchgear — and transformers need grain-oriented electrical steel, which is itself a constrained product.
Di cosa è composto
Tutti i materiali →| Materiale | Cosa fa qui | Importanza |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminium critico | Overhead lines and some cable cores | Definizione di |
| Copper critico | Cables, windings and busbars | Definizione di |
| Iron & Steel | Towers, transformer cores and enclosures | Definizione di |
| Lithium critico | Battery storage on the network | Importante |
| Silicon critico | Grid-scale power electronics and HVDC valves | Importante |
| Zinc critico | Galvanising every steel structure outdoors | Importante |
| Silver critico | Contacts and switchgear | Presente |
| Vanadium critico | Flow batteries for long-duration storage | Presente |
Aluminium
A light silvery metal made by passing an enormous electric current through dissolved bauxite — which is why people…
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Iron & Steel
Iron with a little carbon in it, and the most-produced manufactured material on the planet.
Lithium
A soft, silvery metal so light it floats on water, and the element that lets a rechargeable battery store a lot of…
Silicon
The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one atom in a billion is…
Zinc
The metal that steel is dipped in so it does not rust — a sacrificial coating that corrodes instead of the iron…
