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Is the environmentalist lobby ready to allow the amount of mining required to produce the copper, nickel, cobalt, and aluminum needed to support going "100% ren
by politician 4y ago
Is the environmentalist lobby ready to allow the amount of mining required to produce the copper, nickel, cobalt, and aluminum needed to support going "100% renewable asap"?
- atlasunshrugged 4y agoThey are happy to support it when it is done outside their own country (speaking as an American)
- politician 4y agoBy the number of downvotes, I'm going to take away the idea that, no, the environmentalist lobby does not approve of the increases in mining required to support going 100% renewable ASAP.
- ncmncm 4y agoYou would have concluded that regardless. And, regardless of any other facts.
- politician 4y agoIt's an honest question, but I would challenge you to examine your response critically.
- ncmncm 4y agoThe environmentalist lobby doesn't allow or forbid. It has overwhelmingly less power than is projected on it by nuke advocates. Nukes are losing wholly on their own. Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element on earth. Cobalt demand is already peaking. Copper and nickel have been produced in the millions of tons annually for a century, and will not slow down.
- pfdietz 4y agoCobalt is used in certain vehicle batteries. Are you assuming nuclear isn't going to do this, say by putting a nuclear reactor in each car?