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2022-04-05 Science & Technology

Biden pushes for US mines to ramp up production of EV battery components

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 09:18|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1

Where are the LSD Enviromentists now?
Imagine the impact on the environment that EV will have. The Climate Changes it will make? ☺

Posted by NN2N1 2022-04-05 09:38|| 2022-04-05 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 And all of this mining will be done with those dirty, dirty hydrocarbons.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 09:58|| 2022-04-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 From the "energy secretary" on down, electric car people act like it's free and no impact to the environment. Ask anyone who has had a neighbor steal their electricity to recharge an EV.

Question: If you are an EV driving lefty who is anti-nuclear energy, why don't you demand a "no nuke" charging station, much like unleaded gas?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 10:01|| 2022-04-05 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 More than likely to reduce his personal lithium prescription costs.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-04-05 10:49|| 2022-04-05 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump-approved Nevada lithium mine could unlock Biden clean energy goals

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:03|| 2022-04-05 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:04|| 2022-04-05 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:06|| 2022-04-05 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 There's a company looking at extracting rare earth minerals from the "water" in the Salton Sea.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:08|| 2022-04-05 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Supply Chain for Lithium and Critical Minerals Is … Critical

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:13|| 2022-04-05 11:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Interesting to note:

Lithium Nevada mines in America, but sends the 'ore' to China for processing.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:15|| 2022-04-05 11:15|| Front Page Top

#11 The mining is not any dirtier than any other mining. The processing of the ore is problematic, from health and environmental standpoints.

Thus China.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:17|| 2022-04-05 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Pretty normal. We ship ore like that out of the US to places like China and Mexico/South America. Processing ore is dirty, takes toxic chemicals and is usually a environmental pain in the ass to do here in the US.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 11:18|| 2022-04-05 11:18|| Front Page Top

#13 The health chemistry of "rare earth metals" will make your hair fall out. Literally.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:18|| 2022-04-05 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 How much cadmium do you want in your Big Mac?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:19|| 2022-04-05 11:19|| Front Page Top

#15 From a health chemistry standpoint, there's pretty much no metal you want more of in your bloodstream than is appropriate, and some metals, the appropriate level is basically zero.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:27|| 2022-04-05 11:27|| Front Page Top

#16 It sort of sounds like ceding control of our uranium to Russia might not have been in our interest.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-04-05 11:59|| 2022-04-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#17 All that stuff is just so much paper. The uranium is still in the ground here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 12:01|| 2022-04-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#18 Oh, oh, but it's a ~~contract~~ treaty. Yeah. look how those work out,

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 12:03|| 2022-04-05 12:03|| Front Page Top

#19 To accomplish this, Biden directed the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to fund feasibility studies for new projects, decrease waste at existing sites, and modernize domestic mines so they can amp up production of critical minerals, The New York Times reported.

I wanted to ask "Where is the graft in that?" until I read this part.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-05 12:43|| 2022-04-05 12:43|| Front Page Top

#20 Pretty sure making glorified golf carts wasn't the intention, but whatever. And that was my first thought too when I heard it on the radio the other day; gets mined, sent to china where it sits until whenever they feel like selling it back. What a scam.

Lunch Vader in charge huh. Bungling Bros and Drown'n Bailey's.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-05 13:08|| 2022-04-05 13:08|| Front Page Top

#21 "We lost the war because a 9th circuit judge said we could not recharge the electric tanks from nukes..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 13:13|| 2022-04-05 13:13|| Front Page Top

#22 There isn't enough lithium in the earth to do what the Greennuts want.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-04-05 14:41|| 2022-04-05 14:41|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ Physics is rayciss.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 14:54|| 2022-04-05 14:54|| Front Page Top

#24 The president can use the Defense Production Act of 1950 to speedily expand the supply of essential materials and services for domestic industries to promote national defense.

Hmmm - having more Priuses and Teslas on US roads 'promotes national defense'? I learn something new every day.

Posted by Raj 2022-04-05 17:20|| 2022-04-05 17:20|| Front Page Top

#25 @Raj

National defense is whatever they want it to be. That is the beauty of the provision.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-05 17:36|| 2022-04-05 17:36|| Front Page Top

#26 There isn't enough lithium in the earth to ~~do what the Greennuts want~~ properly medicate all the bipolar lunatics in the Biden Administration

Posted by Caesar Uneans2606 2022-04-05 17:41|| 2022-04-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

#27 Not diesel, fertilizer and herbicide.

Golf Carts.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-05 17:50|| 2022-04-05 17:50|| Front Page Top

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