Gavin D. J. Harper
@gavindjharper.bsky.social
Research Fellow 🚘🔋♻ PhD MBA CMgr FRSA FHEA MCMI MIET. #CriticalMaterials #CymroManqué #ArosDiflino
Delighted to see The Faraday Institution feature our 2019 @nature.com paper on EV battery recycling in their latest Success Story 🚗🔋 www.faraday.ac.uk/success-stor... Looking back, it’s incredible to see how a collaborative vision grew into a cornerstone for the global circular economy. A thread 🧵👇
Pleased to have written this new piece for @ConversationUK. 📝 We are witnessing a critical, overlooked consequence of the ongoing Iran war: the rapid depletion of global tungsten supplies. Here’s why it matters for the world's militaries. 🧵👇 theconversation.com/the-iran-war...
The Iran war has depleted supplies of tungsten, a critical mineral for the world’s militaries
The element is used in everything from missiles to armoured vehicles.
theconversation.com
L'industrie automobile franchit un cap historique. 🚗🔋 Notre article "Electric vehicles pass tipping point" est traduit par @Conversation_FR ! 🇫🇷 Décryptage d'une rupture majeure avec le pétrole. 👇
The world’s supply of helium is being threatened by the Iran war by Gavin D. J. Harper @gavindjharper.bsky.social #CriticalMaterials Via @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-worlds-s...
The world’s supply of helium is being threatened by the Iran war
Helium, a critical material, could be in short-supply due to Qatar’s suspension of gas production.
theconversation.com
Great to see our article (@vietecon @gavindjharper & @RobertJRElliott) as the lead article on @ConversationUK. "Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices" theconversation.com/electric-veh...
Nice to be quoted in this article by Fran Roberts-Thornton in Which magazine talks about our insatiable appetite for Critical Materials in tech, and how we can reduce our consumption of them by extending the life of our devices and making them last for longer.
🚗⚡ How is the global shift to electric vehicles really unfolding? Our new discussion paper from the Centre for Economic Performance at @LSE dives into the economics of the EV transition: demand, supply chains, and innovation. A quick thread on our key findings 🧵👇 cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...
The economics of the electric vehicle transition: demand, supply chains, and innovation
Electric vehicles (EVs) are central to decarbonising road transport, a sector responsible for 23% of global energy-related emissions, and their adoption carries both economic and societal implications. This paper provides an economic review of EV transitions, synthesizing theory, stylized facts, and frontier empirical findings. We document three key observations: EV adoption has historically occurred in waves that stalled and revived; contemporary adoption is highly heterogeneous across countries; and the transition reshapes automotive sector activities and supply chains, increasing reliance on geographically concentrated critical minerals and generating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and political economy challenges. We then analyze the economic drivers of adoption, including total cost of ownership, network externalities, and complementary technologies such as charging infrastructure, grid integration, and digital innovations. Supply-side constraints, resource scarcity, and innovation dynamics are examined, highlighting how the EV platform interacts with broader technological and industrial systems. The analysis emphasizes the systemic, path-dependent, and platform nature of EV transitions and outlines policy-relevant insights for managing adoption, supply chains, and innovation. Finally, we identify avenues for future research, including the economics of end-of-life and used EVs, resilient supply chains, and the role of complementary technologies in accelerating low-carbon transitions.
cep.lse.ac.uk
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 🔖Special Issue Alert 🔖 📘 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Separations ♻️🔋 Recovery of Spent Lithium Ion Batteries Using Advanced Separation Methods 👇Check out the call below: mdpi.com/journal/sepa... 🗓️ Submission Deadline: 9th November 2026 #BattChat #CriticalMaterials
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
Death and destruction ... PART OF THE ANTI-CHRISTS PLAN !!!
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
Trust... but verify. As a President once said.
Ron Richie@ronrichie.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhen trump is finally gone, it will take a long time and much difficulty to repair the damage the fool has done. The hardest part may be restoring our nation's image on the world stage, and convincing our former friends to trust us again.
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
Quite funny that Starmer's allies are waking up to this point now … Cuts to Winter Fuel… not in the manifesto Disability benefit cuts… not in there either Cutting jury trials… also not there Digital ID… no mention Raising employers NI… nope Freezing tax threholds… nah Contracts with Palantir… no
For the first time in history, the state of Virginia has a female Governor and right after being sworn in today Governor Abigail Spanberger’s first official act was to end cooperation between ICE-Gestapo and Virginia State Police. More of this. 💙👊👏
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
@wrexhamuni.bsky.social Really refreshing to see Wrexham Uni on Bluesky but no longer actively maintaining X. A principled decision. Wish more institutions would follow, it would make transition easier!
A great conversation about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 - United States 🇺🇸 Critical Materials Deal just broadcast on Asharq News, Asharq Bloomberg Business. Great talking to Nadia Bsat about Rare Earths and our work at @unibirmingham.bsky.social #BCSECM & @ifmcambridge.bsky.social.
A hearty thanks to Perran Moon MP and the All Party Parliamentary Group on #CriticalMinerals for the invitation to a Parliamentary Breakfast hosted at the Terrace Pavilion, House of Commons.
Really enjoyed filming this week as a guest on another episode of #TRTWorld Roundtable with Enda Brady. Great to talk about our research at @unibirmingham.bsky.social #BCSECM @UoB_Business ... more to follow next week... watch this space...
Jesus Christ. This email was less than a month before Helsinki
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence. Viet Nguyen-Tien @cep-lse.bsky.social & @gavindjharper.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP
As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
The fucking irony of a party themed on The Great Gatsby - a novel they’ve obviously never read.….
Decoy Flight Attendant@jw1958.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe fucking irony: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” The Great Gatsby, FS Fitzgerald
Grateful to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on #CriticalMinerals for the opportunity to engage on behalf of the @unibirmingham.bsky.social Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials with their recent meeting at the Palace of Westminster.
Rare earth elements and value chains - @vietecon.bsky.social and @gavindjharper.bsky.social look at the background to the recent US - China deal.
The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP
As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence write Viet Nguyen-Tien of @cep-lse.bsky.social and @gavindjharper.bsky.social of @unibirmingham.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP
As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
