Posted on 01/24/2022 7:57:56 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Global hunt
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Watch out for the Meth Freak thieves.
They will search anywhere.
So, if the Greenies get their way. they will be hogging up all the copper for ‘clean energy.’ However, at lease in MY state, they REFUSE to let us mine for copper, LOL! We have TONS of copper in northern Wisconsin. Some of the rivers are YELLOW because of the content of copper in the rocks and the soil! Of course, they want to pillage and plunder OTHER parts of the world, which they always shut up about.
“’Copper will be crucial in achieving decarbonization and replacing oil with renewable energy sources, and right now, the market is facing a supply crunch that could boost the price by more than 60% in four years,’ Goldman Sachs wrote in a report May 2021.
Goldman analysts, led by Jeff Currie, also said that more copper will be needed to create the new infrastructure systems required for clean energy to replace oil and gas, but there has not been enough of a focus on this.
The Goldman team estimates that copper demand will therefore significantly increase by up to 8.7 million tonnes by 2030, if green technologies are to be adopted en masse.”
That’s a lot of strip mining.
Looks like new home construction sites will be needing armed security. Most plumbing is no longer copper but the electrical..... Hard to conduct power using PVC.
And the 1970s experiment with Aluminum household wiring didn't fare so well...
The Lake Superior area has always been a center for copper mining. About 20 years ago a multi ton copper boulder was recovered from the Lake waters. Almost pure native copper. So there has to be lot more yet where that came from.
Time to go back to wiring houses with aluminum cable.
And the costs for wiring continue to climb.
Trying to pump up a bubble...
Lol...I see you remembered the aluminum wire debacle also.
Vast reserves of copper in Alaska. Unfortunately the environmentalists are blocking any new mines.
Ya hay dere - Lot of copper in Tomahawk & Lady Smith - My neighbor has a place in Long Lake - he said during WW II we were mining copper 24/7 in the area.
Copper mining is being blocked by the State DNY in Madison.
Had a house in Bay St Louis many years ago that was wired with aluminum. You could feel the heat in the wiring. Not sure if they retrofitted them or not.
Too bad we didn’t follow through on the copper mining plan for Afghanistan. Like the oil in the middle east, we left it for the natives, after all our billions of dollars worth of military and humanitarian assistance was a “gift” from the American People.
“Copper mining is being blocked by the State DNY in Madison.”
Yep.
Maddening, isn’t it? Grrrr!
I was in Kabul in 2002. The government buildings for one ministry were just shells. All the windows, doors, molding was gone, used for firewood. Even the copper electric wires were ripped out of all the walls.
If we made meth legal it would make the price much lower and they would not have to steal so much copper. They would also be able to afford rudimentary housing with trash service instead of living in tents surrounded by garbage. I went for a bike ride along the river yesterday and it was like a linear refugee camp. Coleman tents, tarps, cardboard boxes and pallets and huge piles of garbage with shopping carts and bicycle parts mixed in. A lot of that trash will go into the river and become ocean pollution.
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