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Journalist & author of "Power Metal," the book and newsletter on real costs of "green" energy. powermetal.substack.com/

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Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist based in Los Angeles.

On August 7, 2018, Penguin-Random House will release his first book, about the deadly global war for the world’s most important yet most overlooked commodity: sand.

Vince has reported from over 100 countries, states, provinces, emirates, kingdoms, occupied territories, liberated areas, aircraft carriers, no man’s lands and disaster zones. He has exposed conditions in California’s harshest prisons, trained with troops bound for Ir…

Vince Beiser’s Journalist Portfolio

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world–sand–and the crucial role it plays…

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The World's Disappearing Sand

The World's Disappearing Sand

Op-Ed Contributor MOST Westerners facing criminal charges in Cambodia would be thanking their lucky stars at …

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Paris is Burning…Bicycles?!

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By Vince Beiser Verified
| Power Metal
Burning bikes in central Paris on Oct. 17. All photos and video by me. I was in Paris last week for an excellent critical metals awareness-raising event, about which more later. Of course, that wasn’t exactly the big recent story out of France. As you’ve undoubtedly heard, on Saturday the whole country erupted in protests. Naturally, I had to go see the action.
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Mining Helped Kill This Spectacular Waterway —But Now It’s Coming Back to Life

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By Vince Beiser Verified
| Power Metal
And more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital tech—and how we can do better. Howe Sound, looking northwest. Photo by me! Less than an hour up the road from my hometown of Vancouver, Canada, sits what must be one of the world’s most spectacular natural settings near a major city—or for that matter, pretty much anywhere.
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China’s Other Military Resource Edge: Sand

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By Vince Beiser Verified
| New Security Beat
This article was originally published on Vince Beiser’s “Power Metal” newsletter. While we’re focused on America’s shooting war with Iran and its trade war with Canada, tensions are building in the hotly disputed South China Sea. There, China is conjuring into being a potential new military base in the middle of what had been open water. Until this year, Antelope Reef was a tiny, ovular donut of rock and coral about 160 nautical miles off the Chinese coast in the northwest South China Sea.
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