Name: Episode 14 — The dark site of the energy transition
Released: 2025-12-22
Duration: 26 min

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Episode 14 — The dark site of the energy transition

Released: 2025-12-22 • Documentary

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French journalist Guillaume Pitron warns of the shadow side of the energy transition and digitization. Rare metals are essential for the production of electric vehicles, fighter jets, wind turbines and solar panels, as well as for our smartphones, computers, tablets and other everyday devices. But most people actually know very little about the way they are extracted, or about the ecological and geopolitical cost of this. Pitron wrote the book The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies.

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Creator	Marije Meerman
Episode air date	22.12.2025
Episode runtime	26 min
Episode rating	0.00
Genres	Documentary
TMDB series rating	7.4
IMDb series rating	8.3
Series status	Returning series
Age rating	—
Country	NL

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