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But if it takes more energy to mine those recyclable materials than to burn direct there is no benefit to anyone but a few businesses, they don't care about the environmentwell i would suggest mining recyclable materials is rather different to mining stuff you burn that warms our climate unsustainably
……..just another bought politician
And then you have the cost of extracting and recycling those materials. Oh and don't forget transportation to the factories for manufacturing in a fossil fuel burning HGVBut if it takes more energy to mine those recyclable materials than to burn direct there is no benefit to anyone but a few businesses, they don't care about the environment
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Out of sight out of mind .But if it takes more energy to mine those recyclable materials than to burn direct there is no benefit to anyone but a few businesses, they don't care about the environment
But if it takes more energy to mine those recyclable materials than to burn direct there is no benefit to anyone but a few businesses, they don't care about the environment
But if it takes more energy to mine those recyclable materials than to burn direct there is no benefit to anyone but a few businesses, they don't care about the environment
Hardly anyone REALLY cares about the environment. If they did, nobody would ever have children and keep making all the problems worse.
If we fizzled out as a species the planet would do exactly what it wants to and if it’s all too late and heading for total oblivion there isn’t another species with the brain power to worry about it anyway.
Plus, we are the only species that uses money, so as always, just follow that trail.
And what about the environment impact of end of life for these batteries.Turbines and panels....Slightly gigantic fecking That the world is avoiding atm.you mine material for batteries once so your investing in future sustainability rather than just keeping on burning stuff
electricity is our future, once you have the ability to catch and store it you have infinite clean energy falling out the sky, sea and wind for free
And what about the environment impact of end of life for these batteries.Turbines and panels....Slightly gigantic fecking That the world is avoiding atm.
Even if you can't recycle them (which is surely going to be an inevitable just like we recycle lead-acid batteries, anything iron and copper) it really is still trivial compared to the environmental impact of fossil fuels.And what about the environment impact of end of life for these batteries.Turbines and panels....Slightly gigantic fecking That the world is avoiding atm.
Extraction of...
Hydrocarbons 34.7 billion tonnes
Iron ore 4.6 billion tonnes
Bauxite 289 million tones
Phosphate 276 million tonnes
Lithium... 130,000 tonnes, potentially to rise to 3 million to meet demand in the future.
It's really not a sound argument to argue for fossil fuels on the basis of less mining.... that is a nonsense.
That said... EVs are not environmentally sound, just a bit less worse.
Being a mining engineer in my past life I've seen the scale of some of the mining operations that extract our natural resources. Have you any idea of the scale of a mining operation that would extract 130k tonnes of lithium? You can't dig it off a face like coal or pump it out of the ground like oil it takes alot of energy water and chemicals. Whilst your at it check out how cobalt is mined in Africa.
Please tell where you think we will find the copper and all the other metals in the tonnages we need and how long it takes to open a new mine and the mind boggling cost to do this both financial and environmental.