copper

“We need more copper between now and twenty-fifty than in the history of human civilization. That includes the Bronze Age.”

“So at Endolith, we use microbes and data to pull more copper out of material that's already been mined at operations that already exist.”

“There's no downstream processing. These bugs don't accumulate copper inside of them to where we have to, like, split them open and harvest the copper. It's not like that. They just facilitate liberation of more copper faster.”

“In lab, we've seen 1.7 to 1.9 times greater uplift, but depending on the complexity, if it's primary or secondary sulfides or oxides, it can change and it can vary so much.”

“Copper is the fundamental linchpin in how humans are able to exist in the next thousand years. If we cannot fix it now, that is the thing that I truly believe will cause mass impacts to society.”

“The world does not have a copper discovery problem. We have a copper recovery problem.”

“Demand is doubling by twenty-thirty-five.”

“It is the most effective non-precious material for transmitting electrons, and so every time we think about grid stabilization, electrification, or things like AI data centers, the copper backbone underpins all of it.”

“You can add domestic supply without new permitting, which makes it the fastest lever that the country has.”

“What we do at Endolith is we drive in our bio rig. It is where we grow our microbes on site. It has instrumentation. It has the ability to upload data, and we grow microbes. We grow them, and we plug them directly into those sulfuric acid irrigation lines. Not…”

“The structural logic at the end of the day is going to hold regardless of who's in office, because you can't electrify anything. You can't build AI data centers without copper, and much of the world's current refining and processing capacity sits outside the U…”