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Rare Earth Minerals Needed for EV Batteries Turn Villages to Ruins

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As EV’s proliferate, here’s only one of the costs to the World’s environment not considered by the EV cheerleaders.


Sound OFF as it’s in Chinese ... just read the subtitles.

 
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Here's one for you!
 
The Chinese government doesn't care about it's people. They have around 1.4 billion guinea pigs to do their bidding for them and a few dead ones means nothing to this asshole.
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In his race for world dominance, if he will run over his own people, what do you think he thinks about the rest of the world. A real country doesn't have to beat their people to keep them in line and what he calls happy people is a joke. Like North Korea, put these two in a group of their own people without their military to protect them and see how long they last before their own people beat them to death.
 
WWWWHHHHHHAAAATTT????? Nooooooooooo!!!!!!! My dreams are shattered...... You cant tell them the truth it will ruin everything
 
Those batteries will cause more damage to the environment than internal combustion engines ever did. Just wait until people start burying them in their backyard to dispose of them!
 
The one question nobody seems to want to answer is: What fuel or technology will be used to charge these batteries? Looking at it from a cost standpoint, solar and wind energy are the most expensive. 440'
 
What fuels are used to extract, refine and deliver said products?
People have NO idea what they are being fed, zero. If I’m not mistaken the Chinese already own 40% of the lithium mines in the world. Give them time......
 
440Coronet500 said:
The one question nobody seems to want to answer is: What fuel or technology will be used to charge these batteries? Looking at it from a cost standpoint, solar and wind energy are the most expensive. 440'
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Exactly, coal fired power plants, till they fix that problem. One problem brings up another.
 
Hey-O said:
The Chinese government doesn't care about it's people. They have around 1.4 billion guinea pigs to do their bidding for them and a few dead ones means nothing to this asshole.
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In his race for world dominance, if he will run over his own people, what do you think he thinks about the rest of the world. A real country doesn't have to beat their people to keep them in line and what he calls happy people is a joke. Like North Korea, put these two in a group of their own people without their military to protect them and see how long they last before their own people beat them to death.
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A disposable population. One of the reasons why much of our production and manufacturing moved to China. They work cheap, have no unions to help protect the workers, raw materials are cheap, and there is no EPA or Osha.
 
toolmanmike said:
A disposable population. One of the reasons why much of our production and manufacturing moved to China. They work cheap, have no unions to help protect the workers, raw materials are cheap, and there is no EPA or Osha.
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Well said!!
 
chargervert said:
Those batteries will cause more damage to the environment than internal combustion engines ever did. Just wait until people start burying them in their backyard to dispose of them!
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Electric car batteries make excellent home energy storage batteries. They will be needed.
 
We seem to always figure out a way to **** the bed. What to do with all the waste from these "cheap" energy alternatives. Decades later we still haven't figured out what to safely do with nuclear waste...(besides dump it in Utah somewhere). We have to consider the impact on the planet or we'll be needing a new address before we know it. Face it, class M planets aren't a dime a dozen in our galaxy so we better start taking better care of this one before it's too late. IMO
 
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We seem to always figure out a way to **** the bed. What to do with all the waste from these "cheap" energy alternatives. Decades later we still haven't figured out what to safely do with nuclear waste...(besides dump it in Utah somewhere). We have to consider the impact on the planet or we'll be needing a new address before we know it. Face it, class M planets aren't a dime a dozen in our galaxy so we better start taking better care of this one before it's too late. IMO
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Like those curly pig tail light bulbs that were the answer to the light bulb problem. GE stopped making them here because of the mercury in them, so China took over making them. We can't make them here, but, our landfills are full of the one we throw in the trash when they stop working!!
 
I'd be willing to bet that the damage done from the oil well that is less than the damage of mining and processing of rare earth minerals.
 
slepr1 said:
Electric car batteries make excellent home energy storage batteries.
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Until you get one bad cell, and then it's ability to store energy long term is gone.

Environmentalists only care about themselves and their agenda....not how the end result is achieved.
 
Hey-O said:
Like those curly pig tail light bulbs that were the answer to the light bulb problem. GE stopped making them here because of the mercury in them, so China took over making them. We can't make them here, but, our landfills are full of the one we throw in the trash when they stop working!!
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Those dam lamps containing CFL's cause more harm to the environment than the energy that they save over their lifetime.
A fact that the Greenies conveniently don't talk about now. :cursin:

Remember when we had "resonant start' fluorescent light fittings....the ballasts in those contain even worse material - PCB's. (Polychlorinated biphenyls)
 
kiwigtx said:
Until you get one bad cell, and then it's ability to store energy long term is gone.

Environmentalists only care about themselves and their agenda....not how the end result is achieved.
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kiwigtx said:
Those dam lamps containing CFL's cause more harm to the environment than the energy that they save over their lifetime.
A fact that the Greenies conveniently don't talk about now. :cursin:

Remember when we had "resonant start' fluorescent light fittings....the ballasts in those contain even worse material - PCB's. (Polychlorinated biphenyls)
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Every new vehicle runs a massive environmental debt with all the plastics, electronics and rare earth materials needed for all the "so called" better technologies required by law and environmental lobby groups, EV vehicles being the highest. People give me grief for driving old vehicles..."They pollute so much!" but the environmental debt that my old vehicle incurred when built was much smaller then today's vehicles, and it has paid off that debt decades ago and now it is actually benefiting the planet in a weird kind of way because every new car "I" don't buy is just that much less environmental damage not being created.

At least that is how my twisted mind sees it....;)
 
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