Posted on 01/24/2022 7:57:56 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
“... global push for decarbonization.” Globull Gloaming. One of the biggest scams and hoaxes in the entire history of scams and hoaxes.
I created a wonderful sign and placed it in a very visible place in my cubicle: Large Carbon Footprints Make For Happy Trees. Drives the leftists crazy. For those few who actually want to discuss it, I remind them about what we used to teach in our schools, the Carbon Cycle. Most of the life on Earth is carbon-based life. No carbon, no life.
Long ago I ceased using the term ‘fossil fuel’ and replaced it with hydrocarbons. There are oceans of hydrocarbons on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. I sincerely doubt that dinosaurs and savanna existed on those moons millions of years ago. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. Every year the ‘known’ reserves of hydrocarbons increases. We will have oil and natural gas for thousands of years. The more C02 we exhale, the more plants will use.
I bought rolls of copper 1oz. rounds a few years ago for .99 a round (coin).
This morning they are selling anywhere from $1.75 to $2.50 a piece.
.999 pure copper. Gotta buy more.
Ah, but Michigan and Wisconsin STILL HAVE millions of tons of copper in the bottoms of their deep mines. Mines shut down in the 70s and 60s. Too expensive to hire union miners. African slave labor is cheaper.
Thanks RACPE. The deeper mines go, the less economical they are, and extraction ceases when deposits closer to the surface are found. The oldest mining location for copper is probably Cyprus (5000 years old), but I think there's only one remaining mine, the rest of them may become economical if the price of copper rises a bunch.
It's more likely that the phone network in the US (which is largely copper-based) will be recycled as its replaced by fiber. The cost of recovering the lines and recycling the copper *could possibly* help offset the expense of the fiber buildout.
Your next sign:
“Proud To Be A Carbon-Based Life Form!”
Paging Francisco D’Anconia...
“The more C02 we exhale, the more plants will use.”
As a gardener, I am totally down with that! :)
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