South America, every mention
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every year anyone Shayle Kann 10Ernest Scheyder 2Charles Brooke 2Stephen Lacey 1Nat Bullard 1Josh Linville 1Jessica Lovering 1Jamie Beard 1Colin Grabow 1Carlos Araque 1
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Inside the global fertilizer crunch
- ▶ 9:09 Josh Linville The longer this continues, now it starts to manifest itself in places like Africa, like in South America, because they'll be the next ones up to start buying this product.
Digging deep for super hot geothermal
- ▶ 8:34 Carlos Araque So anywhere in the Pacific, um, side of the country, um, and all of the Pacific of, of South America as well.
More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump
- ▶ 19:49 Nat Bullard Ah, watching EVs work their way through Southeast Asia, through South America, Chinese-made EVs, I should be very clear, ah, is really a thing.
The story of steam
- ▶ 23:00 Addison Stark Say you're a global cosmetics manufacturer, and you have 20 manufacturing facilities around the world, your facility in Europe might not look like the one in South America, actually has slightly different temperatures of waste heat,…
The geopolitics of rare earth elements
- ▶ 8:08 Shayle Kann And lithium, it's in Australia or South America.
The promise and perils of sodium-ion batteries
- ▶ 13:21 Shayle Kann You know, this isn't necessarily true forever, but certainly as it stands today, not only is the lithium production predominantly outside of North America, it's in South America and in Australia, but lithium refining is, is almost…
- ▶ 41:17 Adrian Yao I mean, that mostly is in Australia and the Northern Tri- uh, the Northern Triangle, um, in South America.
Lithium’s wild ride
- ▶ 2:32 Shayle Kann There are geopolitical things going on in South America and in China.
- ▶ 3:50 Ernest Scheyder Brine typically, um, is found in huge parts of western South America.
- ▶ 8:46 Shayle Kann Okay, so in the cost curve of current lithium production, the lowest cost resources tend, I think, to be the brine, some of the big brine resources in South America, right?
- ▶ 21:25 Ernest Scheyder Now, the word nationalization obviously has a loaded connotation, especially in parts of Central and South America, but what he was saying is, is that the lithium in Chile belongs to the Chilean people, uh, and that should be controlled by…
Building a supply chain for rare earth elements
- ▶ 2:32 Shayle Kann There's pretty much always a complex geopolitical challenge that we face in that transition, whether it's the Democratic Republic of the Congo for cobalt, or South America for lithium and copper, Indonesia for nickel, and then there's…
- ▶ 11:51 Shayle Kann It takes place in South America or in Australia, and then a lot of the refining takes place in China.
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 20:23 Colin Grabow Alaska oil on a foreign tanker down around the tip of South America and to the U.S.
Solving the cow burp problem
- ▶ 10:09 Charles Brooke Yeah, you know, by country, region, the, the large proportions are from the Americas, you know, the North, North and South Americas, and Asia, with actually India being the largest concentration of, of cattle globally. 2 times in the scene
The cost of nuclear
- ▶ 7:28 Jessica Lovering Uh, so it's a lot of places in, you know, across Asia, but also Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, South America.
Is the Inflation Reduction Act a win for EVs and batteries?
- ▶ 12:20 Shayle Kann So as it stands today, most lithium is mined in either South America or Australia. 3 times in the scene
Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player?
- ▶ 8:19 Jamie Beard Some places in South America, for instance,
The great rush for battery metals
- ▶ 33:36 Shayle Kann And this is predominantly South America, like Atacama and Chile and Bolivia.
The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in California
- ▶ 7:48 Stephen Lacey The vast majority is mined in Australia and South America and processed in China.