There are a plethora of new automobile engines their creators hope will capture the commercial marketplace in the near future. The engines are designed to run on methanol, ammonia, hydrogen,…
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Jane Goodall on the Futile Climate Crusade
But taken together, the problems of wind, solar, and batteries are substantial and call for a mid-course correction from look-the-other-way, mention-and-run, wish-and-hope Big Green. Jane Goodall, just as James Hansen,…
Green Dilemma: Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Could Provide Half the USA’s Lithium Needs
They have to extract the gas to get to the Lithium…
Assessing America’s vulnerability to a Chinese graphite embargo
The potential damage from a Chinese monopoly graphite embargo is quite large. Vulnerability assessment is clearly called for.
It’s Time for Transparency of The Embedded Costs of Going “Green”
Supplies to support “green” inflict environmental degradation, humanity atrocities, and increases in emissions, not transparent to the green movement.
Lithium Turmoil: Chilean President Gabriel Boric Squeezing Miners
Interesting times for green leaders like President Biden and UK PM Boris Johnson; As the green revolution drives up prices, freshly elected far left Chilean President Gabriel Boric has shaken…
Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker: The Bad Assumptions Underpinning COP26 and the Impending Energy Train Wreck
Guest “Reality can be a harsh teacher” by David Middleton The world is already in an “energy crisis” of sorts due to the tremendous misallocation of capital from functioning energy…
Lithium: How the Taliban will fight climate change?
Guest “America last… again” by David Middleton Biden’s Clean Energy Program Loses Out on Afghan LithiumBY IER AUGUST 24, 2021 Afghanistan is the “the Saudi Arabia of lithium” –a metal…
Closing the gap on the missing lithium
There is a significant discrepancy between theoretical and observed amounts of lithium in our universe. This is known as the cosmological lithium problem, and it has plagued cosmologists for decades.
Where’s the Lithium? NYT Notices a Lot More Lithium Needed for Biden’s Electric Vehicle Push
NYT has noticed an awful lot of toxic mineral extraction and wholesale open cut ecological destruction would be required, to satisfy President Biden’s clean electric vehicle vision.
How do you Extinguish a Lithium Battery Fire?
A few weeks ago I asked a fire fighter friend how they extinguish electric vehicle battery fires. His answer was “you can’t”.
Weakest link to EV growth is the material supply chain
The worldwide plans for EV domination of the vehicle population are like having the plans to build a large house without sufficient materials being available to ever finish the house.
Why don’t these lives matter?
The world’s top producer of cobalt is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 40,000 children as young as four toil with their parents for less than $2 a day…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #280
The Week That Was: 2017-08-05 (August 5, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The important thing is not…
CO2 sequestration research stumbles onto something useful: a big lithium strike in Wyoming
Guest post by Alec Rawls Most lithium (the lightest metal) is now mined in the Andes (image above), but it looks like the U.S. has more than a little of it…
The New Pause Lengthens to 8 years 1 Month
Why, then, the continuing worldwide pandemic of panic about the mildly warmer weather we are enjoying?