{"id":348512,"date":"2024-10-23T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348512"},"modified":"2024-10-23T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:45:59","slug":"green-scam-of-the-century-renewables-drive-up-fossil-fuel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=348512","title":{"rendered":"Green scam of the century: \u201cRenewables\u201d drive up fossil fuel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Ronald Stein<\/a>,\u00a0John Shanahan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the transition to so-called clean and green electricity, critical minerals and metals bring new challenges to electricity security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar plants, wind farms, and EVs generally require more minerals to build than their fossil fuel-based counterparts. A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant. Since 2010, the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has increased by 50% as the share of wind and solar renewables in new investments has risen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our electricity is increasingly dependent on rare earth minerals and metals mined for wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries under atrocious slave labor and environmental conditions in other countries that the DOE and bureaucrats ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China controls a stranglehold of 80% of the global supply monopoly on rare earth minerals and metals, with the Congo in Africa a 90% source of vital cobalt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a total component basis for an EV battery, graphite is about 25% to 28% of the whole EV battery. Turkey has the largest reserves of graphite, followed by Brazil and China. Together, these three countries accounted for 66% of the estimated world graphite reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should concern everyone that all those \u201cblood minerals\u201d come from mining at locations in the world that are never seen by environmentalists, policymakers, or EV buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A battery for a heavy-duty electric truck can weigh up to 16,000 pounds, which is 16 times more than the Tesla battery!!!! A single truck battery requires 8,000,000 pounds of earth to be dug up. That\u2019s astounding \u2013 digging up 8 million pounds of earth for each truck battery!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policymakers setting \u201cgreen\u201d policies are oblivious to the reality that Electricity came AFTER the discovery of oil 200 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n