Posted on 04/04/2023 10:46:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Stopped reading at “climate change”.
Same.
Shortages happen only when government messes up the market both at the supply end and at the demand end.
Have they solved the child labor/poisoning problem? Have they made lithium fireproof?
“The lithium needed to create those batteries is a finite resource,”
Last year we mined .1 million tons.
Global reserves are almost 100 million tons.
A cheaper recycling process is always useful, especially if it’s an economically viable alternative child miners or landfills.
Over half of lithium comes from Australia. And we have enough cobalt in Minnesota for the US's needs -- if the Dims got out of the way.
But "for the US's needs" assumes free market on the demand side and the Dims quit trying to force everybody to switch to EV's.
I think very few people know how much steel and aluminum are recycled.
The lithium mining itself is destructive. This is pure BS to fool the ignorant.
You are conceding the premise, that electric cars are desirable. MOST AMERICANS DO NOT WANT THEM. Gas stations take minutes, and a full tank of gasoline lasts many hours! You know this.
Recycling Lithium, a highly unstable metal— what could go wrong to make this environmentally destructive? Everything. Like working with mercury.
I call BS.
just more BLAH BLAH BLAH
But that only creates even more problems that have to be patched with even more absurd “solutions.” Case in point: It was recently estimated that it would cost $13 TRILLION Euros to acquire and install the battery backup capacity necessary to electrify all of Europe with “renewable” sources. And it was stated that there isn’t remotely close to enough Lithium and Cobalt reserves, or the capacity to mine and refine it, and to manufacture the batteries, to meet this goal. Then there is the fact that if power from solar and wind is being stored during the day, then that generating capacity isn’t available during the day to power anything, so even more solar and wind has to be built just to power things while the rest are charging batteries. This means that you have to have essentially DOUBLE the generating capacity that is required with conventional power plants, which generate the same amount of power 24 hours per day and thus don’t need storage.
When your basic premise is false, as is the case with the “renewable energy” fiasco, then reality will eventually force you to either admit you are wrong or else embark upon an endless path of ever more absurd attempts to patch the holes in the underlying premise. The envirowackos have chosen the latter, which is why we see these ridiculous Rube Goldberg-esque “solutions” proposed to deal with the manifest deficiencies of “renewables.” They’ve even proposed such idiocy as building huge reservoirs uphill from solar plants and using the solar power to pump water uphill during the day, only to release it at night to spin turbines and generate electricity when the sun isn’t shining. Never mind the ENORMOUS cost of something like that, and the fact that solar capacity used to pump water uphill during the day can’t be used to provide any power to the grid. You could do all of that ridiculousness, at astronomical cost, or you could just use coal, natural gas, or nuclear to generate electricity continuously, rain or shine, as we have done reliably for generations.
It’s the difference between harnessing up 10,000 hamsters to pull your car around, or just dropping in an engine and going about your day.
Hydrogen Fuel cells are the future.
And the only by-product is water.
Why is it dumb? If you can recycle lithium batteries cheaper than you can mine it the free market will recycle lithium batteries.
Single use, throwaway culture is dumb.
Recycle them and retro fit them with the magic ingredient that came out yesterday that makes them last 10X longer.
Exactly why fedzilla wishes to embrace the loser of the two, and smother H2 powered cars.
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