A machine like the above is required to move 500 tons of earth/ore that will be refined into one lithium car battery. It burns 900-1000 gallons of fuel in a 12-hour shift.
Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, NV, is estimated to require up to 75 semi-loads of sulfuric acid a day. The acid does not turn into unicorn food as AOC believes.
Refining lithium has created several EPA Superfund sites. It is very toxic to the environment.
A battery in an electric car, let’s say an average Tesla, is made of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc., averaging 750-1,000 pounds of minerals that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity, electricity which is [has been] generated by oil, gas, coal, or water (and a tiny fraction by wind and solar).
That is the truth and the lie of “green” energy.
There’s nothing “green” or “clean” about the “Green New Deal”.
Dr. Phillip A. Fields, Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
Author of 62 publications with 1,497 reads and 1,457 citations
Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, NV, is estimated to require up to 75 semi-loads of sulfuric acid a day. The acid does not turn into unicorn food as AOC believes.
Refining lithium has created several EPA Superfund sites. It is very toxic to the environment.
A battery in an electric car, let’s say an average Tesla, is made of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc., averaging 750-1,000 pounds of minerals that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity, electricity which is [has been] generated by oil, gas, coal, or water (and a tiny fraction by wind and solar).
That is the truth and the lie of “green” energy.
There’s nothing “green” or “clean” about the “Green New Deal”.
Dr. Phillip A. Fields, Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
Author of 62 publications with 1,497 reads and 1,457 citations
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