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@CandNMoreno Both pollute. Cobalt mining is yet another issue. Powering billions of ppl via solar and batteries comes with environmental costs we are perhaps yet to witness. Both industries pollute unfortunately.
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@CandNMoreno We would be moving from the "mass extraction" of various materials (oil industry) to the "mass extraction" of other various materials (battery industry). On a planet of with billions of people, scale matters. This is why some people are sceptical about shifts in mining or extraction due to battery requirements. Cobalt extraction comes to mind also.
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@CandNMoreno At the moment, manufacture of "renewable energy" sources is done within the construct of relatively low costs via fossil fuels. We surely all know fossil fuels have their problems via extraction processes, pollution etc. Many of us recognise that scaling up mining industries in an attempt for complete "renewable energy" economies may have it's own issues once mass scale kicks in. Mining for materials such as Cobalt, Nickel, Lithium etc. Claims of being able to recycle certain elements is one thing, but when put into practice it can be another. There are many written articles that bring these aspects into question. "In May 2016, Phalodi in Rajasthan recorded India's highest-ever temperature of 51 Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit)." (Phys . org - June, 2, 2019) - Hmm? the decade of the 1930s saw very high recorded heat measures. Nasa actually manipulated their US temperature graphs around 1999 so that the temperatures of the 1930s were lowered! The EPA still maintains those high recorded heats of the dustbowl era. India was reported to have a 124 deg Fahrenheit temperature in 1935 by The Canberra Times. Heat of that magnitude in India from the 1930s is not surprising. High heats in India as of late, are surely nothing new.
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