cobalt

“Professor John Goodenough at UT Austin is hard at work on a new type of chemistry that would use a glass electrolyte made out of sodium, which is much more abundant than cobalt, and it's just so awesome to me that at age 95, having pioneered the first big leap…”

“It turns out that if we use the existing battery chemistries, which is a lithium ion battery, the most scarce raw material is not going to be lithium itself, but cobalt.”

“Today, as much as 65% of the global supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where cobalt production has already fallen in 2017 because of the unstable political situation.”

“The, so we worked with labels that the Merlin and Cobalt, so fourth majors to bring their music into the music model so we can do it in a licensed way so you can generate that and give commercial rights so you are fully protected.”