Fortescue – The Global Mining ‘goliath’ that’s genuinely ‘greening’ a dirty business
Monstrous trucks and cleaning up a ‘carbon monster’: Robert talks to the CEO of Fortescue.
Timestamps
0:10 Intro
3:49 What Fortescue is, export scale, Port Hedland
7:26 Why decarbonize: climate, economics, sovereignty
13:45 The economics: diesel cost vs solar/battery savings
18:50 Mining tech and safety: why big machines lag behind EVs
21:47 Truck battery scale and first-gen electric retrofit design
30:06 Full mining process, and electrifying the entire fleet
34:38 Hydrogen and ammonia as alternative green fuels
39:31 Steel making, green metal, and Pilbara industrial ambitions
58:25 Battery safety, thermal runaway, and wind-down
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