Metals, Energy and Sustainability The Story of Doctor Copper and King Coal
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Full Title

Metals, Energy and Sustainability The Story of Doctor Copper and King Coal
Author(s)

Barry Golding, Suzanne D. Golding
Edition
ISBN

9783319511757, 9783319511733
Publisher

Springer
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult concept of human sustainability is examined in the context of continually decreasing real prices of energy and metals. This book integrates the latest findings on our historic use of technology to continually produce cheaper metals even though ore grades have been decreasing. Furthermore, it shows that the rate of technological improvement must increase if metals are to be produced even more cheaply in the future.

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