Waarom het voor materialen van belang is
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.
Waaruit het bestaat
Alle materialen →| Materiaal | Wat het hier doet | Belang |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminium kritiek | Overhead lines and some cable cores | Definiëren |
| Copper kritiek | Cables, windings and busbars | Definiëren |
| Iron & Steel | Towers, transformer cores and enclosures | Definiëren |
| Lithium kritiek | Battery storage on the network | Belangrijk |
| Silicon kritiek | Grid-scale power electronics and HVDC valves | Belangrijk |
| Zinc kritiek | Galvanising every steel structure outdoors | Belangrijk |
| Silver kritiek | Contacts and switchgear | Heden |
| Vanadium kritiek | Flow batteries for long-duration storage | Heden |
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…
