The responses were interesting. Many were not just, the government ignored what happened after Hurricane Helene (which as near as I can tell is true--"those people are not going to vote Democrat") but either created or steered Helene into North Carolina to remove the people for lithium mining to get cheaper. And Biden did this so Trump could take advantage of this!
Some of these people are unaware that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hurricanes of enormous power and frequency hit the East Coast.
There were a lot environmental concerns from people who seem to think that letting the PRC do lithium production is better for Mother Earth.
And my favorite: lithium is not needed because we can make batteries from hemp. Maybe it has been too long since organic chemistry, but I am having trouble seeing how any organic is going to have useful electrochemistry. Perhaps if you get high enough, your EV seems to move.
Must have the right frequencies:
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The Left has been fighting against lithium mines in the US for a long time. (And other mines involving "rare earths" that are also needed.)
ReplyDeleteThe environmental devastation caused by lithium mining in South America is amazing, but not in the news. (Same for nickle mining in Indonesia).
The mines have reintroduced mining shovels - not as large as The Captain or The Silver Spade, but mining shovels. Lithium mining is mostly strip mining.
I haven't seen any reference to walking draglines, like Big Muskie, or bucket wheel excavators, like Bagger 258, but I would expect them to be considered soon. (The German baggers are the most efficient strip mining machines every built. One of them is the largest land-bound machine ever built. (Aircraft carriers are larger)
Bagger 293 is the largest machine on land. It "looks like a small mobile city, with a giant buzz saw attached to the front end."
ReplyDeleteI have seen this video. Amazingly, in use in Germany. Whare are the Greens?
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