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20. Like the Lithium mining industry for batteries?

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 19, 2022, 11:47 PM

Apr 2022

Uses huge amounts of fossil fuel and environmental damage to mine lithium for EV batteries….

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Well its about damn time SOMEONE noticed the obvious. oldsoftie Apr 2022 #1

Can you imagine Cheeto? peppertree Apr 2022 #25

I guess Ivanka would literally be "glowing' oldsoftie Apr 2022 #26

Straight out of the Roman Empire, those two peppertree Apr 2022 #30

Its only carbon free if you ignore the huge uranium mining industry Blues Heron Apr 2022 #2

It's more carbon-free than the coal mining/burning industry tinrobot Apr 2022 #3

no doubt Blues Heron Apr 2022 #4

Like solar cells and wind generators? PoliticAverse Apr 2022 #5

Please be honest in a life-cycle analysis of CO2 impact kiri Apr 2022 #6

Im just talking fuel - uranium and the mining industry behind it Blues Heron Apr 2022 #9

you are right--"a fuel to fuel comparison with wind or solar" i kiri Apr 2022 #15

but many of those materials for solar & wind come from places like CHINA. AGAIN. oldsoftie Apr 2022 #27

Your "I'm just talking fuel"... FBaggins Apr 2022 #31

I know - I only make this point when the carbon free claim comes up as it does a lot Blues Heron Apr 2022 #34

Have you even used fat free cooking sprays? FBaggins Apr 2022 #38

I think carbon free is just nuke industry propaganda Blues Heron Apr 2022 #42

You think wrong FBaggins Apr 2022 #43

so now we are back to fuel then Blues Heron Apr 2022 #44

Which is entirely worthless FBaggins Apr 2022 #45

also only true if they are made of fairy dust. mopinko Apr 2022 #8

right--see my post #15 kiri Apr 2022 #16

that too. mopinko Apr 2022 #17

Like the Lithium mining industry for batteries? madville Apr 2022 #20

that is storage - I am talking fuel only here Blues Heron Apr 2022 #23

The question is "why should anyone else accept a 'fuel only' evaluation?" FBaggins Apr 2022 #33

See my other post- I only make the point to refute the carbon free claim Blues Heron Apr 2022 #35

3/8 of a inch of steel VGNonly Apr 2022 #7

Yup, 2002. roamer65 Apr 2022 #10

DB is about 40 miles away from me. VGNonly Apr 2022 #12

I'm in far west burbs of Metro Detroit. roamer65 Apr 2022 #13

And plumes of radiation are slowly entering the groundwater in western Washington from WWII era work mahina Apr 2022 #24

Far more than 3/8 of an inch of steel FBaggins Apr 2022 #36

Folks: There is no safe disposal option for rad waste. NRC has never designated a high level Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #11

Yuka Mountian was the plan madville Apr 2022 #22

Yes, there is safe disposal. former9thward Apr 2022 #32

As well as recycling. nt FBaggins Apr 2022 #37

Attended hearings from NRC. The science was flawed as were the selected areas. High Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #50

We're dealing with the fossil fuel wastes that are destroying the natural environment... hunter Apr 2022 #39

Another fossil fuel waste problem: 8 million deaths/year from waste emitted into the air progree Apr 2022 #49

Not arguing the substantiated threat of fossil fuel industry. Lack of enforcement has allowed Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #51

Eventually everything will be powered by fission or fusion. erronis Apr 2022 #14

These pro and con arguments here and elsewhere never mention how the air will clear in2herbs Apr 2022 #18

Greenhouse gases are invisible to the naked eye Kaleva Apr 2022 #29

I don't understand your post but here are a few excerpts from in2herbs Apr 2022 #40

Fine, I'll reply. Germany is fucked up. Their green faction is a largely a cult... hunter Apr 2022 #48

Natural gas will destroy what's left of our natural world. hunter Apr 2022 #19

+1. Germany really fucked up dalton99a Apr 2022 #21

Yes they did. And now UKR is paying the price for their mistake. oldsoftie Apr 2022 #28

Please read my response to Kaleva above. TY nt in2herbs Apr 2022 #41

I had to look again, read that as a $68 effort. Haha. nt Akoto Apr 2022 #46

Good. We need more new nuclear power plants in the USA. beaglelover Apr 2022 #47