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.
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.
Iceland has a massive amount of geothermal and hydroelectricity. A large portion of that electricity is exported in the form of aluminum.
What a fascinating sentence to read!
Aluminum can be thought of as "solid electricity". Base mineral is abundant but transfomation is energy-expensive.
It's an interesting way to frame it, like how California exports water to Saudi Arabia via alfalfa