Mining requires a lot of explosives. 300 holes, each containing 1 ton of anfo. The toxic dust from the explosion would settle miles away. This is just another aspect of what it takes to make #GreenEnergy But they wont talk about that.
Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans, never mind aspirations for far greater expansion, will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world.
A single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth.
Current clean-energy scenarios imagined by the World Bank (and many others) will require a 1,000%–4,000% increase in neodymium, mining of indium, 8,000%, cobalt 300%–800% and lithium 2,000%
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