Aug 9 2021: "#Mineral exploration company #KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff #Bezos & Bill #Gates, has signed an agreement w/ [] Bluejay Mining to search in #Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles."
July 7 2020: "Gates, Bezos-backed firm searching for #cobalt in #Canada"
"#KoBold’s backers include [] Breakthrough Energy Ventures [] financed by well-known billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Ray Dalio, #Bloomberg, Richard Branson & Gates."
Mar 5 2020: "In Jan, Equinor []announced it was joining Maersk & Glencore & Allseas in investing in a #subsea#mining co. looking for #cobalt, taking a 10% [] in another player. That co. is #KoBold... Looks like cobalt is the new oil of the 21st century."
"Acceptance of a changing #energy sector is also critical for the siting and permitting of new infrastructure. Energy transitions do not mean an end to large infrastructure projects, successful transitions need them." [p 57]
In the 386 report on the metal road to the full #digitalization of the global economy & societies, not a single word about data centers. #Electricity for data centers is to increase 15-fold by 2030 representing 8-11% global demand. In one scenario, global demand could reach 20%.
In a worst-case scenario, it is suggested that communication technologies (#CT) could use as much as 51% of global #electricity by 2030. In this scenario, "CT electricity usage could contribute up to 23% of the globally released GHG emissions in 2030". [Anders Andrae] #COP26
"delivering the base #metals to meet [#NetZero 2050] pathways strains project delivery beyond breaking point from people & plant to financing & permitting."
Nov 6, 2021 "The 19 million tonnes of additional #copper that need to be delivered for net-zero 2050 implies a new La Escondida must be discovered & enter production every year for the next 20 years."
"Even if you focus on just one of the obstacles bringing new copper supply online – the time it takes to build a new mine – and leave aside all other factors, #NetZero 2050 has zero chance."
"Side effect is a euphemism for undesired direct effect".
The short doc took much heat, as did those featured in film.
Dec 22, 2004: "#GlaxoSmithKline went on to say 'the #FDA encourages studies in pediatric patients. Clinical trials involving #children and #orphans are therefore legal and not unusual.'"
"The delusions of the #rulingclass, which I have come to believe are more advanced & also less treated despite access to health care, are imposed on society, top to bottom. Their own #psychological#poverty must be compensated for, or duplicated, in the lower classes."
"They are tearing away the humanness from #culture, but only up to a point because they don’t really know the ingredients for #human. Just as they don’t experience desire, only an obsessive impulse for power and hoarding."
"If #Bezos or #Musk didn’t have wealth to hoard, they would be like those old men in pension hotels, their rooms stacked to the ceiling with fading and deteriorating magazines, and old milk cartons."
Oct 18 2021: "More than 100 meetings have been organised between investors & ministers...Those attending include former Microsoft boss Bill #Gates...Other attendees include #BlackRock boss Larry Fink...execs are also coming from multinationals such as #Amazon, Heinz & Disney."
"The [#NetZero Banking] Alliance was launched by 43 Founding Members on 21 April 2021 & has since grown to represent a quarter of global banking assets."
"Industry-led, UN-convened"
#UN/#WEF: de facto clearing house for ruling class objectives. #COP26