🔴‘Green’ Energy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking

“A single Tesla battery weighing 1,000 lbs requires extracting & processing some 500,000 lbs of materials. At this rate, over the next 30 yrs we will need to mine more mineral ores than humans have extracted over the last 70,000 yrs.#GreenEnergy”

https://twitter.com/JohnLeePettim13/status/1509228228019466243?s=20&t=tkabK7cnP4EI4BBIRu3CUg

“All energy-producing machinery must be fabricated from materials extracted from the earth. No energy system, in short, is actually “renewable,” since all machines require the continual mining and processing of millions of tons of primary materials and the disposal of hardware that inevitably wears out. Compared with hydrocarbons, green machines entail, on average, a 10-fold increase in the quantities of materials extracted and processed to produce the same amount of energy.”

- Mark P. Mills, Green Energy: A Reality Check
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@LibertyOverwa