"Mayor Pete" Admits: "We Need More Minerals For EVs"
The U.S. would have to increase mining for cobalt and lithium by 2,000% for 20 years to reach today's demands for those minerals.
‘Just The News’ reports that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has spoken to the need to greatly expand mining if the US moves deeper into EV ownership. The consequences to the planet seem of little concern to him.
Create more puncture holes in the crust; destroy the planet to save the planet.
"The chemistry of our batteries has not completely stabilized in a way that I think can be fully predicted," said Buttigieg. "There's no question that we need to source more minerals both domestically and from friendly countries." He added, “… some of the finer points related to extraction are probably better answered by my colleagues at the Department of the Interior…”
Former Interior Secretary and Montana Republican Representative Ryan Zinke was questioning Buttigieg and emphasized the reality that: China ‘controls either directly or indirectly’ more than 62% of the critical minerals needed for EV batteries, and the U.S. would have to increase mining for cobalt and lithium by 2,000% for 20 years to reach today's demands for those minerals.
Consider that the batteries needed for a heavy duty pickup truck weigh up to 8,000 pounds each, and a truck like that needs at least two of those batteries.
And not just cobalt and lithium, of course, but copper too, and many others…
NBC reports of a nickel mine in the Philippine rain forest doubling in size:
This list of mining expansion could go on and on and on…
Electric Vehicles and the solar/wind/battery heavy industries needed to produce and maintain them, are forces too impactful and damaging for the Earth to endure.
Regardless, these inferior systems have taken hold of the World’s imagination; people seem to think they’re being helpful to purchase these beasts.
But that is a profound mistake that, if not corrected, and soon, will doom this planet and our societies. Sri Lanka was the siren screaming in our collective ear.
We need not go the route of resource exploitation. We need not make these mistakes. We need not create more heavy industry to solve the effects of heavy industry. To repair the damaged weather systems, we need not rely on weather systems for our energy. We need not do any of this.
#Build5InLA
Let’s build 5 Small Modular Reactors in California and 5 in Louisiana and compare results to solar/wind/battery. Let’s see these systems at work in real time. Do a “Moon Shot Effort” and get this going in 4 years…
If the risk is “existential” how can we not?
