Nice article. The metal scarcity is about to seriously hamper the calls for total electrification of the global economy.

Simon Michaux of the Geological survey of Finland states that the world lacks the mineral resources to manufacture even one generation of the necessary renewable energy conversion machines a.k.a. solar panels and wind generators and posits that the physical limit to our growth will spoil our efforts at transformation.

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/the-energy-transition-will-run-through-the-copper-gauntlet-a2b9dad943a7

https://americanexperimentnd.org/simon-michaux-on-the-quantity-of-metals-needed-to-provide-just-one-generation-of-renewables-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351712079_The_Mining_of_Minerals_and_the_Limits_to_Growth