{"id":115415,"date":"2023-07-11T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-years\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:58:12","slug":"huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge mineral discovery in Norway could supply battery and solar panels for the next 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115415\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSolar panels are seen on the roof of the Babilonia Rio Hostel, one of the first places to use solar energy in the favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The discovery of valuable ore in Scandinavia looks to relieve shortages of phosphorus for decades to come. Huge phosphate deposits discovered in southwestern Norway could be large enough to supply electric vehicles, solar panels and fertiliser for up to 100 years. The valuable ore was discovered in 2018 by Norge Mining, who revealed in May that they\u2019d found 70 billion tonnes of the material.<\/p>\n<p>Phosphate is rich in phosphorus which is a key component of many green technologies, as well as fertiliser. The find comes at a crucial time when Europe has been facing supply issues. In 2012, The Hague issued a report warning of upcoming phosphate shortages. Russia controls the biggest deposit of the chemical compound, but imports have been curbed since the Ukraine invasion.\u00a0Morocco, China, Iran and Syria also have large deposits of the material, but the war has still had an impact, realised through rising fertiliser costs. Earlier this year, scientists warned of a \u201cphosphogeddon\u201d. We need to be \u201ca lot smarter in the way we use phosphorus,\u201d Professor Phil Haygarth of Lancaster University told UK newspaper the Guardian. \u201cIf we don\u2019t, we face a calamity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bristol University\u2019s Professor Penny Johnes put it more bluntly: \u201cThere is no life on Earth without phosphorus\u201d. Phosphate fertiliser has become essential to securing global food production. But its runoff has also been associated with algal blooms that threaten fish stocks and produce planet-heating methane.\u00a0These new deposits found in Scandinavia could theoretically supply global demand for batteries and solar panels for up to 100 years, Norge Mining confirmed. Following the discovery of the rock, Jan Christian Vestre, Norway\u2019s minister of trade and industry, said Norway had an \u201cobligation\u201d to develop \u201cthe world\u2019s most sustainable mineral industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The global economy gets through 45 million metric tonnes of phosphorus each year. Once mined, the ore can be processed into phosphoric acid and supply a broad range of uses, including lithium-iron-phosphate batteries and animal feed. \u201cWhen you find something of that magnitude in Europe, which is larger than all the other sources we know &#8211; it is significant,\u201d founder and deputy CEO of Norge Mining, Michael Wurmser told news website Euractiv. &#8220;We believe the phosphorus that we can produce will be important to the West &#8211; it provides autonomy,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>However, the refining of phosphorus has historically been very carbon intensive, which is partly why there has been little production in Europe in recent years. Norge Mining plans to use carbon capture and storage to offset the environmental impact of production, though the efficacy of these technologies is often called into question. It wasn\u2019t just phosphate that was discovered at the site. Large deposits of critical raw materials titanium &#8211; used frequently for joint replacements and in building aeroplanes &#8211; and vanadium &#8211; used to strengthen steel &#8211; were also present.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/07\/10\/huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-ye\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/huge-mineral-discovery-in-norway-could-supply-battery-and-solar-panels-for-the-next-100-years\/\">Huge mineral discovery in Norway could supply battery and solar panels for the next 100 years<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[835,3053,575,2461,1606,1014,6838],"class_list":["post-115415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-battery","tag-discovery","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-huge","tag-mineral","tag-norway","tag-solar-panel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}