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Feb 8 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
It took 10,144,035 tons of Coal, 50,084,600 tons of Quartz, 11,271,150 tons of Charcoal and 5,635,575 tons of Woodchips to build this 345 acre 196,320 panel solar field in China, and that's just the metallurgical-grade silicon, not any copper, steels or plastics. #GreenEnergy
Lingering Legacy: Millions of Toxic Solar Panels That Can’t Be Recycled Destined for Landfills stopthesethings.com/2020/10/10/lin…
How solar panels are made. Time to look at the true environmental costs. hiddenhistorycenter.org/wp-content/upl…

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Feb 9
According to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers:

Carbon Dioxide Emissions will increase by 48% in 2030,
because gas plants constantly starting up and shutting down expel more emissions than if they ran continually. #GreenEnergy
This is what my part of the country used to look like. Farmland. Image
This is what it looks like now. Image
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Feb 9
$6.7 trillion invested in #GreenEnergy since 2004. To continue this green dream the world will need 10 million tons of new copper supply over the next decade, or the equivalent of a new Escondida copper mine, the biggest in the world, into production every year. #GreenEnergy Image
The Chinese copper smelter Guixi had the largest production capacity worldwide, amounting to some 900 thousand metric tons as of June 2022. In the process the smelter has caused cadmium, arsenic, copper and lead contamination in the soil and water.
Coal remains at the heart of China's flourishing green economy. In 2019, 58 percent of the country's total energy consumption came from coal, and China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined.
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Feb 7
This 1 ton rock contains between 0.6 and 1 per cent of copper. One ton of ore generates a maximum 6 to 10 kilograms of copper. Depending on the size of battery, an electric bus can use between 224 and 369 kg of copper. How do we get the copper out of the rock? Mining 🧵
To start with we have to do a whole lot of mining. Mining requires massive amounts of equipment, fuel, oil and electricity. This shovel requires 4160 Volts to operate.
But before we get into that first we need core samples. Core samples determine whether or not we have a mineable property. How do we get core samples? We call in the diamond drillers.
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Feb 6
The $5 billion Tesla “Gigafactory” in
Nevada is currently the world’s biggest battery
manufacturing facility. Its total annual production
could store three minutes’ worth of annual U.S.
electricity demand. Now imagine the amount of mining we have to do in order to build this
But wait it's solar powered. Ok let's take a look at what is required to make PV panels. Green? Not in the least. Raw materials for 1 ton of metallurgical-grade silicon.
● Quartz 2.4 t
● Coal 550 kg
● Oil coke 200 kg
● Charcoal 600 kg
● Woodchip 300 kg
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Feb 2
A mine I worked at, Kyrgyzstan. 12 people died the first month I was in, 11 from alcohol poisoning, 1 from a dozer falling thru an old stope. A supply truck crashed through a bridge, dumping a ton of toxic sodium cyanide into the local river, 2,500 people were poisoned. Image
When the dozer fell thru the stope we fished it out with a 120 O&K shovel. He was cut in half. The realities of mining.
The locals working at the mine would mix methyl hydrate and orange juice with a drop of engine oil. The methyl hydrate was to strong as it was are own supply. 11 died and one blinded. It was a dry camp, no alcohol allowed, so they made their own.
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Feb 1
Insert lie - cause fear - take money due to lie and fear = climate change, green energy $$$
The oldest grift in the world yet people keep falling for it.
Seven Eminent Physicists; Freeman Dyson, Ivar Giaever (Nobel Prize), Robert Laughlin (Nobel Prize), Edward Teller, Frederick Seitz, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg, all skeptical of "man-made" global warming (AGW) alarm. populartechnology.net/2010/07/eminen…
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