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This is a funny thing, the Global Warming hysteria we're seeing. What's funny, is that there have been a lot of promises made by industry and governments on converting to an all-electric infrastructure. This is all so we won't have our current standards of living affected in the least.
What I find funny (interesting), what happens when the public realized that we can NOT convert to all-electric. The amount of mining required for this conversion needs to be increased multiple times over. And not just for one material, there are many needed to support all-electric infrastructure.
Lithium gets a lot of attention, it's one of the materials need, but it's estimated that we will need 400 more mines by 2035 to meet the expected EV battery demand. And that's not counting all the other applications that require lithium. https://techinformed.com/almost-400-new-mines-needed-to-meet-future-ev-battery-demand-data-finds/
But then there are many other materials, including Rare Earth elements, but also other "normal" materials, such as copper, which the mining of will need to increase by 250% just for the charging stations, then you have the cars themselves and all the windfarms that require copper...list goes on https://www.mining.com/ev-sector-will-need-250-more-copper-by-2030-just-for-charging-stations/
Even sand is becoming harder to come by, which is required for all the concrete to support all these structures. The Chinese used more concrete in three years than the US used during the entire 20th century...what do they have to show for it? A large number of ghost cities of concrete. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...ire-20th-century-infographic/?sh=341006854131
On top of all this, it's very difficult to open mines in Europe and the US due to strict environmental laws. This is a big part of why China leads the world in producing much of the materials needed to convert to all-electric. Of course there's talk of becoming less dependent on China, not just for the mining, but the very dirty task of getting these materials from the mined rock.
Politicians can talk all they want, but this Green Revolution is not going to happen in the given time frame (the time frame is key).
Two interesting video from a geopolitical analyst. However, there are some other interesting info out there from people that do the math on just how much we must increase our production of these necessary materials, which there are a lot of.
We're being stupid as of now with how we deploy the green technology
We've never doubled the production of any material in history, yet we need to increase production by many times for many different materials.
What I find funny (interesting), what happens when the public realized that we can NOT convert to all-electric. The amount of mining required for this conversion needs to be increased multiple times over. And not just for one material, there are many needed to support all-electric infrastructure.
Lithium gets a lot of attention, it's one of the materials need, but it's estimated that we will need 400 more mines by 2035 to meet the expected EV battery demand. And that's not counting all the other applications that require lithium. https://techinformed.com/almost-400-new-mines-needed-to-meet-future-ev-battery-demand-data-finds/
But then there are many other materials, including Rare Earth elements, but also other "normal" materials, such as copper, which the mining of will need to increase by 250% just for the charging stations, then you have the cars themselves and all the windfarms that require copper...list goes on https://www.mining.com/ev-sector-will-need-250-more-copper-by-2030-just-for-charging-stations/
Even sand is becoming harder to come by, which is required for all the concrete to support all these structures. The Chinese used more concrete in three years than the US used during the entire 20th century...what do they have to show for it? A large number of ghost cities of concrete. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...ire-20th-century-infographic/?sh=341006854131
On top of all this, it's very difficult to open mines in Europe and the US due to strict environmental laws. This is a big part of why China leads the world in producing much of the materials needed to convert to all-electric. Of course there's talk of becoming less dependent on China, not just for the mining, but the very dirty task of getting these materials from the mined rock.
Politicians can talk all they want, but this Green Revolution is not going to happen in the given time frame (the time frame is key).
Two interesting video from a geopolitical analyst. However, there are some other interesting info out there from people that do the math on just how much we must increase our production of these necessary materials, which there are a lot of.
We're being stupid as of now with how we deploy the green technology
We've never doubled the production of any material in history, yet we need to increase production by many times for many different materials.