Posted on 03/10/2023 9:15:00 AM PST by rktman
The much-touted green energy economy and the net zero goals it aims to obtain are built upon a dirty little secret: slavery and child labor.
A large percentage of the rare earth elements and critical minerals required for modern electronics, in general, and green energy technologies in particular, are produced and/or refined in countries where, if labor and environmental standards exist at all--and are enforced if they do—the standards are far short of what is required in developed countries.
The mining, refining, manufacturing, and transportation of the huge amounts of rare earth elements and critical minerals is a dirty business. Yet, they are vital to the magnets used in wind turbines, the cables, and stations used to transform the electricity produced by turbines and solar panels, and transmit it to its final destination, and the battery back-up needed to maintain electric power supply and reliability from those intermittent sources.
The International Energy Agency reports that offshore wind requires more scarce minerals, rare earth elements, and other critical metals per kilowatt hour of energy produced than any other source of electric power generation, renewable and non-renewable alike. Onshore wind and solar are the next most critical-mineral-intensive sources.
The vast majority of these critical minerals and elements are mined abroad, and almost all the refining of them is done by China alone.
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Enslave the planet to save the planet.
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And the planet doesn’t care. At all.
Plus major environmental destruction!
The “green” energy chases only one target - the Co2 reduction.
It sacrifices all the rest of environment to this goal - destroying valuable forests, farm fields, oceans, protected environments. Poisonings Earth with hazardous waste. Killing birds and whales...
You pretty much nailed it.
The Climate Change Crap started in the left in the late 70’s when the WEF came about.
Coincidence?
This is all about control.
Plans for a Lithium mine are in works for one near the NV/OR border. Nasty mess.
As long as my idiot DemocRat in laws feel good about themselves while driving their new electric Volvo. $7000 of which was paid by we tax payers.
It’s okay since libtards will pay descendants of their slaves reparations in 150 years
King Charles, court jester Greta and bishop Klaus Slob want to reduce the population and return us to a feudal system.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLClp_wrn4kKT2u8TnzDmAsc0nwRd2hXaB&v=M4YEq2Upv2U&feature=youtu.be
We have enough of the minerals needed here for all solar panels and EV’s if the Dims got out of the way and let the free market handle both supply and demand. They artificially inflate demand by trying to force more purchases of EV’s and solar equipment than the free market demands. The same with the Dims lowering supply by limiting rare earth production.
And, keep in mind that all of those nasty things are to a large extent banned in the “civilized” countries and dumped on the ........... “dark skinned folk”.
That is one purpose of offshoring — killing off the <human folk.
When anyone touts offshoring, ask about the skin color or ethnicity of the new employees. Watch the faces.
Kinda like asking a Democrat if any of their ancestors owned slaves.
To get to 500,000,000 ya gotta break a few eggs. And decimate some populations but hey......
Check out Shabara artisanal Cobalt mine in the “Democratic Republic of the Congo”.
Relates to the costs of Child Labor.
Thanks for considering NV and OR third world ‘s’ holes. Wait, you could be right. 😂😂😂👍
Don’t look now but SW Arkansas in the old Smackover area is going to extract lithium from some of the nastiest oilfield brines on earth and then pump what is left back down.
Mmmmmmmm! Toxic burn pits bad. Lithium by products good .
Check out Shabara artisanal Cobalt mine in the “Democratic Republic of the Congo”.
Relates to the costs of Child Labor.
Check out Shabara artisanal Cobalt mine in the “Democratic Republic of the Congo”.
Relates to the costs of Child Labor.
Oilfield brine, horrible.
Oilfield injection a crime.
Oilfield fracing prohibited.
Lithium salt harvesting in the same oilfield brine? No problem. Bring it on.
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