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@JohnLeePettim13
Mar 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Sulfuric acid is called the “king of chemicals” because it is the most widely used chemical on earth. Over 260 million metric tons were produced in 2021 #GreenEnergy 🧵 Image
Sulfuric acid is essential for electric vehicles, batteries, solar, wind turbines, semiconductors and other green technology, because sulfuric acid is how you get lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and some rare earth metals by dissolving the rock around them.
But over half is used for the most important product of all, dissolving phosphate out of rocks to make phosphate fertilizer, which can increase crop production by 50%, to grow our fuel: food.
Today 80% comes from oil and natural gas refining into pure elemental sulfur, safe and easy to transport.
The remaining 20% is mainly gotten by the Frasch process which requires dumping lots of super heated water into boreholes drilled into sulfur bearing rocks, water boiled by fossils today, vast amounts of wood in the future.
This method releases not just sulfuric acid but toxic metals like arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, and chromium that can leach out for millennia, poisoning rivers and groundwater.
So without oil and gas we cant make enough sulfur to power this new green world they envision. Without oil and gas we must poison the lakes and rivers to make it. Without it we cant feed the world. But lets get rid of oil and gas?

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Mar 28
Some have asked "John why are you so interested in the Boston bridge?" Here's why. I made my living working on the largest land based equipment in the world, avid boater my entire life and almost died when my boat lost power in the St Clair river/tanker bearing down on me. 🧵
When I'm told by certain individuals to "Stay in my lane" mining, to me that's an insult. Believe it or not I have many diverse interests that I have studied and experienced at great lengths. I am not a one dimensional person.
I have farmed, built houses and worked on/repaired just about everything on Gods green earth. Climbed mountains, studied psychology and politics.
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Mar 26
What is this? It's a schematic of an emergency steering system, as the name suggests, is a system that is used during the failure of the ship’s main steering system. Follow along and I will show you where I'm going with this. 🧵 Image
Mining haul trucks have a steering safety system where If power is lost you must have a means of steering. This is done with a stored energy system by means of an accumulator.
An accumulator is a device used to store hydraulic energy in the form of a compressed fluid. The accumulator helps in maintaining a constant pressure in the hydraulic system by storing excess fluid and releasing it when required.
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Feb 4
Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works. #GreenEnergy thread 🧵
Repowering wind projects allows them to requalify for the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), a lucrative federal subsidy that expires after the first 10 years of a project’s life.
It should come as no surprise, then, that data from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that the wind facilities repowered in 2021 ranged in age from 9 to 16 years old with the median age being 10 years.
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Nov 12, 2023
Are batteries the future? A lot of people seem to think so, but are they? Let's put this argument to rest once and for all. What would it take to power the US for 24 hours (11.12 TWh)? In this thread I will discuss sodium, Li-ion and lead acid batteries. #GreenEnergy 🧵 Image
If lithium were used for both EV and energy storage, reserves would not last long. But there’s a lot of sodium. A sodium battery is better than lithium as well because it is safer and keeps most of the charge when temperatures fall far below freezing.
But it is hard to get the sodium these batteries require. Their cathodes use soda ash  (Na₂CO₃). Over 90% comes from deep under Wyoming, USA, in a vast deposit formed 50 million years ago.
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Oct 29, 2023
Good Sunday Morning. Let me tell you a story about Canada's "free" health care system. This is my friend Mike with his band the Black Orchids. His son became very ill. They took him to different doctors trying to find out what was wrong. The doctors then referred him to .. 🧵 Image
specialist for further testing. The problem was his son was getting sicker and it was going to take months for further testing because of the backlog of cases. Mike and his wife said enough is enough and crossed the border into Detroit. They found out in a week his son had cancer
But this wasn't cheap and costs were not reimbursed even though Canadians pay for their "free" health care from cradle to grave. No, doctors and nurses don't work for free in Canada. Someone pays. The Canadian tax payers.
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Jul 17, 2023
If large power transformers are destroyed by a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) electromagnetic pulse (EMP), cyber-attack, sabotage, severe weather, floods, or simply old age, parts or all of the electric grid could be down in a region for 6 months to 5 years. Image
This is because the USA imports 85% of them (and all of the largest ones), there is competition with other nations for limited production and raw materials such as special grade electrical steel, a high cost ranging from $5 to $20 million dollars.
They are custom built, with long lead times to design, bid, manufacture, and deliver, with components that depend on long foreign production and supply chains.
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