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auspiv
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Running on Empty: Copper
Other countries are very much the same. Almost always located near giant hydroelectric generation facilities. Brazil + Russia are two big ones that come to mind. Probably China too.
wat10000
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Iceland has a massive amount of geothermal and hydroelectricity. A large portion of that electricity is exported in the form of aluminum.
IAmBroom
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What a fascinating sentence to read!
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Aluminum can be thought of as "solid electricity". Base mineral is abundant but transfomation is energy-expensive.
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It's an interesting way to frame it, like how California exports water to Saudi Arabia via alfalfa
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