Posted on 10/25/2022 9:18:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fossil fuels may be renewable, we have coal and derive thorium from it to build Thorium Reactors.
We don’t want to follow “that” kind of science!
“Doesn’t solve the problem of supply and don’t forget all the copper needed to expand the grid, there isn’t enough.”
Despite an ever-increasing demand for copper, there is more of the metal available today than at any other time in history. This, together with the ability to infinitely recycle copper, means that society is extremely unlikely to deplete the copper supply, and copper will continue to contribute to global initiatives, like the SDGs and clean energy.
https://copperalliance.org/sustainable-copper/about-copper/cu-demand-long-term-availability/
Let me give you an example. For England to covert to total EV use by 2030, expanding the grid, etc., it is estimated they would need the entire worlds output for a year.
So for California you might be talking several years. There isn’t enough for that demand.
“Let me give you an example. For England to covert to total EV use by 2030, “
Irrelevant. England is not going to convert to total EV by 2030.
Yes, but they mandated to do it whether they can or not.
btw — I don’t live in New England no more. Been in Florida for 16 years !
they showed the new electric pickups can haul 5-10 thousand pound loads for only about 100 miles between charges.
500 million is the target for the vaxxers causing infertility and heart problems, ask Gates
That’s fine for copper, but what about the others? Can they be feasibly recycled yet?
Clean energy, as it’s euphemistically called, is fine for supplemental power, but otherwise, it can go stick a sock in itself.
How come the Finns can do this research and our elites are totally effing useless?
“That’s fine for copper, but what about the others? Can they be feasibly recycled yet?”
Which. others?
Lithium? Plenty
Cobalt? Tesla is using cobalt-free batteries
“Clean energy, as it’s euphemistically called, is fine for supplemental power, but otherwise, it can go stick a sock in itself.”
Non Sequitur
Welcome to Florida... glad you’re here. 16 years makes you an old timer...
The Finns aren’t part of the $CAM...................
Exactly so. It’s not like used oil, plastics, glass, iron, copper and aluminum that take minimal amounts of energy as compared to mining the raw materials to reclaim................
The supply of child slaves to dig the raw materials out of the ground with their bare hands is also limited.
“Oil is generated from former living organisms which are finite in quantity.”
That’s the most popular theory. But I’ve never seen anyone explain the chemical process that turned a dead tree or dead dinosaur into complex hydrocarbons, let alone duplicate it under laboratory conditions.
Let’s do some math. Math is fun!
A barrel of oil weighs about 300 pounds. Worldwide daily consumption is around 90,000,000 barrels a day. That comes out to roughly 27 Billion pounds a day. Now multiply that times 80 years.
The biomass needed to produce just what we have found so far simply never existed. It would require that every living thing that’s ever been on the planet be magically turned directly into oil.
Then there’s the not insignificant problem of explaining how all those dead trees and dinosaurs ended up 20 or 30 thousand feet underground. The Saudis have, or had, a well that’s over 9 MILES deep. How did those dinosaurs get that far down? What geological process did that?
The fact is that we simply don’t know for sure how oil is produced by the Earth.
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