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On the recordJuly 31, 2019
I want to throw out a few things. Number one, I was reading a report a while back that talked about how, for battery storage technology, it takes 50 to 100 pounds of mining rare and critical materials, oftentimes from China, to produce one pound of battery, one pound--50 to 100 pounds of mining, one pound of battery.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Discussing the resource-intensive nature of battery production for renewable energy.

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