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Mining in Arctic is a technical nightmare. Typical alloys become brittle in these temperatures, darkness severely limits operations and/or workplace accidents,
by Ginden 9mo ago
Mining in Arctic is a technical nightmare. Typical alloys become brittle in these temperatures, darkness severely limits operations and/or workplace accidents, transport requires ice-breakers, permafrost is fundamentally unstable (heat from buildings melts it, causing sinking), and you need to pay people a lot to work there.
- ChoGGi 9mo agoI wouldn't be too worried, ICE is collecting the workforce as we speak.
- mothballed 9mo agoThis is unironically the plan some Norwegian politicians came up with. They were thinking about sending asylum seekers and/or difficult to eject immigrants to Svalbard. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norwegian-politicians-propose-putting-refugees-on-svalbard-remote-arctic-islands-with-more-polar-bears-than-people-10498859.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norwegian-po...