Good.. maybe we can get back to reality.
Reality left the building......
We are barreling headlong into a “battery energy future” with solar and wind that will be impossible to achieve, but that is not stopping our politicians.
Do the research.... its not just minerals needed for chip manufacturing.
China indirectly or directly makes components in each wind turbines. They control 80% plus of solar panel manufacturing in Western China where they use slave labor in concentration camps to make 4 out of 5 panels. They make almost all of the lithium ion batteries that will be needed for EV’s, electrical storage systems, and consumer electronics.
They also control a majority of the mining (to include the child labor in the Congo - cobalt) for these minerals, most of the refining of the metal ores, and distribution.
China makes most of the parts and necessary components for our electrical grid. The same huge grid that will need to be beefed up and renovated in order to charge EV’s in every house.
The push for “green energy” is actually red. It is being pushed by communists disguised as environmentalist in the West and it will turn over our energy economy to the CCP.
Its not just China either.... Singapore controls much of the trade in nickel and they are pushing to create an OPEC of nickel (an essential component of lithium batteries) to jack up the price.
Despite these (and many more) realities about green energy technologies such as how dirty it truly is, our politicians are continuing to scream for a 500% increase (minimum) in these technologies when current supplies are pretty close to max capacity. This will cause massive price increases for so called green energy minerals across the board because there is NOT enough supply and that supply is controlled by our enemy.
The nations where these minerals are mined are in volatile regions with volatile history. We will most certainly become involved in the political machinations that will become necessary to secure our share of “energy” much as we did in the Middle East. Our leaders are pushing for a massive geo-political shift to secure resources and China has already gobbled them up. This is how wars happen.
I could go on and on about the downside of this crap in the name of a fictional climate emergency, but you get the drift and our reliance on China will only increase the further down this road to nowhere we travel. We will support slave labor, child labor, and the environmental destruction of the 3rd world in the name of “environmentalism”.