Stopped reading at “climate change”.
Shortages happen only when government messes up the market both at the supply end and at the demand end.
Have they solved the child labor/poisoning problem? Have they made lithium fireproof?
“The lithium needed to create those batteries is a finite resource,”
Last year we mined .1 million tons.
Global reserves are almost 100 million tons.
The lithium mining itself is destructive. This is pure BS to fool the ignorant.
Recycling Lithium, a highly unstable metal— what could go wrong to make this environmentally destructive? Everything. Like working with mercury.
I call BS.
just more BLAH BLAH BLAH
But that only creates even more problems that have to be patched with even more absurd “solutions.” Case in point: It was recently estimated that it would cost $13 TRILLION Euros to acquire and install the battery backup capacity necessary to electrify all of Europe with “renewable” sources. And it was stated that there isn’t remotely close to enough Lithium and Cobalt reserves, or the capacity to mine and refine it, and to manufacture the batteries, to meet this goal. Then there is the fact that if power from solar and wind is being stored during the day, then that generating capacity isn’t available during the day to power anything, so even more solar and wind has to be built just to power things while the rest are charging batteries. This means that you have to have essentially DOUBLE the generating capacity that is required with conventional power plants, which generate the same amount of power 24 hours per day and thus don’t need storage.
When your basic premise is false, as is the case with the “renewable energy” fiasco, then reality will eventually force you to either admit you are wrong or else embark upon an endless path of ever more absurd attempts to patch the holes in the underlying premise. The envirowackos have chosen the latter, which is why we see these ridiculous Rube Goldberg-esque “solutions” proposed to deal with the manifest deficiencies of “renewables.” They’ve even proposed such idiocy as building huge reservoirs uphill from solar plants and using the solar power to pump water uphill during the day, only to release it at night to spin turbines and generate electricity when the sun isn’t shining. Never mind the ENORMOUS cost of something like that, and the fact that solar capacity used to pump water uphill during the day can’t be used to provide any power to the grid. You could do all of that ridiculousness, at astronomical cost, or you could just use coal, natural gas, or nuclear to generate electricity continuously, rain or shine, as we have done reliably for generations.
It’s the difference between harnessing up 10,000 hamsters to pull your car around, or just dropping in an engine and going about your day.
Hydrogen Fuel cells are the future.
And the only by-product is water.
Recycle them and retro fit them with the magic ingredient that came out yesterday that makes them last 10X longer.
“The mechanical force of the milling causes a chemical reaction between the aluminum and the cathode materials — though even the researchers aren’t exactly sure why. “It is really hard to say how it happens,””
nonsense ... the answer is easy: “SCIENCE” ...
“... if it works as well in the real world as it does in the lab.”
Not a lot of confidence displayed there!
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This falls short of making “green energy” become truly viable. Why not come up with a different form of “green energy” then we can pay energy bills 3 ways instead of just 2?
Okay.
