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Payne Institute Program Manager Jordy Lee contributes to this article about how we’re going to need a lot of minerals for the clean energy transition — think copper, nickel and lithium, among others.  We’ll need those minerals for solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and battery storage for renewable energy. Lithium in particular is a key component for batteries – but China controls most battery processing, and current trade tensions and national security concerns are raising concerns about the reliability of that source.  May 12, 2022.