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Unfortunately, some of the convertors for électrification depend on minerals which, if not "rare", are unevenly distributed. That leave plenty of room for "bat
by phtrivier 9mo ago
Unfortunately, some of the convertors for électrification depend on minerals which, if not "rare", are unevenly distributed.
That leave plenty of room for "battery wars", "motor wars", Even "solar panel" wars if we need to.
I do not believe Putin and Trump are eying Dumbass and Groenland only because of the scenery - and the general historical lesson of the 2020s is that brute force _is_ worth it.
China only is self sufficient, as far as I understand it.
Europe could use minerals from its soil, if we accepted mining. But we don't want that either, any more.
(And given what is about to happen to Groenland, it may be a blessing in disguise not to be too resource-rich. Again: pray the Emperor may ignore you.)
- Yizahi 9mo agoFunnily enough, one of the big reasons for Ukraine invasion was to block our gas extraction, it happened right after Shell did a discovery research on the Donbass, and for many years the occupation had been contained precisely to the two regions where Ukraine had some deposits - Donbass and Black Sea. It's only later mental decline caused him to expand the attack. And vice versa, while there are some rare earths in the Donbass, they are not very convenient to extract. Trump's mining deal was more like throwing a useless toy to a kid throwing a tantrum. It's notable that no one even remembers that "deal" lately.