Humans mined 700 million tons of copper over the last 5,000 years.
The same 700 million tons will need to be mined over the next 22 years to meet energy transition targets using wind, solar, & electric vehicles.
And mining runs on diesel.
Humans mined 700 million tons of copper over the last 5,000 years.
The same 700 million tons will need to be mined over the next 22 years to meet energy transition targets using wind, solar, & electric vehicles.
And mining runs on diesel.
Time to start strip-mining old landfills for the metals. Lots of iron, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, and gold in there.
ReplyDeleteOver the years I have run into people who have salvaged copper! I understand that houses and such that stood empty in places like Detroit when jobs declined were broken into and stripped of pipes and wires.
DeleteWith WWII wartime mandates the US mint was tapped for silver to make wiring for the Manhattan Project, and finally the mint started making Pennies our of alloy because copper Pennies were being exported as scrap copper!
Most concentrations aren't good enough. And most old landfills are near heavily populated areas. Don't think so.
ReplyDeletethis is not accurate since the WEF / UN / C!A plan to depopulate the world. so nobody is going to need copper. you (and me probably) are going to be killed.
ReplyDeletePossibly, but we'll all die someday and I don't plan on going alone.
DeleteDon't worry, mining will soon be powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
ReplyDeleteBut we’re saving the planet! (sc)
ReplyDeleteIdiots and fools never let facts stand in their way, to there eventual demise.
ReplyDelete"And mining runs on diesel.".
ReplyDeleteThe left doesn't agree.
According to them mining runs on BS.
We'll go back to the old way of mining. We'll use slaves just like our ancestors used but this time they'll be woke and full of zeal cause they're saving the planet!
ReplyDeleteThe people who want all this green energy are a bunch of NIMBYs. They've been trying to open a copper/nickel mine in northern Minnesota and the government continually keeps blocking it through the permitting process.
ReplyDeleteThose are facts. Used to make a logical statement. The liberal Greenies left are immune to facts and logic. They can only understand wishful thinking and magic pixie dust.
ReplyDeleteWhat scares me is they (Bill Gates for one) keep talking about blocking sunlight in one way or another. They're messing with the law of unintended consequences.
ReplyDeleteThey talk and talk and blabber on an on. What they mean to do is steal your money while they give each other awards.
DeleteThis is why the WEF wants to depopulate the planet.
ReplyDeletedoes not matter. so long as the campaign contributions and positive press continue the downward spiral will continue.
ReplyDeleteBack when Ehrlich wrote the almost-famously inaccurate "Population Bomb" he entered a bet with a guy named Julian Simon from the University of Maryland on the future availability of resources – and lost.
ReplyDeleteThe setup was simple. They chose a basket of metals: copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and the bet was that Ehrlich said they'd go up in real price in ten years. The start date (bet started) September 29, 1980, with September 29, 1990, being the payoff date. While world population went up 873 million over those 10 years, Ehrlich lost the bet. All five commodities that he had selected declined in price by an average of 57.6 percent.
Like now, as demand went up for those metals, mining got more productive. Human ingenuity and intelligence wasn't considered.
Yes, of course, Earth is finite. Yes, of course, it continuously gets more expensive to mine and refine. It's just that there's no way to figure in how inventive the people doing the mining and refining are.
Look up Psyche, an asteroid believed to be worth $10,000 quadrillion. Lots of metal there.
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From the bureau of made up stats and figures. Must have consulted Karnak the Magnificent for verification of the numbers.
ReplyDeleteNuclear.
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