John Lee Pettimore
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Mining mechanic. UG OP 3X Red Seal. Mine Rescue. CAF Vet. From the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan to the bitter cold of the Yukon. Mining 40 yrs. retired.
Joined July 2021
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of "Green Energy" Follow along and I will explain. 🧵.
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I've kept my mouth shut about the American election because well it's not my country, but this is what I do have to say. You've got to be some kind of stupid to vote for Harris. 🇺🇸.
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280.27 lb. ft. of torque. This is the direction we should be going, not heavy EV batteries that require a massive amount of mining and toxic chemicals to produce.
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Every time you hear the term "Fossil Fuels" on the tv, radio, news etc., you're being lied to. In 1892, at the Geneva Convention, the smartest man in the oil industry J.D. Rockefeller paid scientists to call oil a "fossil fuel" to induce the idea of scarcity, in order to set a
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I live in an area that has 3000 acres of greenhouses. They pump CO2 into these greenhouses 24/7. Vegetables grow so fast that I can buy 25 lbs. of tomatoes for $11.99. CO2 feeds the world it doesn't destroy it. You've been lied to.
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In order to meet Net Zero by 2050 we will need 4,575,523,674 tons of copper. 940,578,114 tons of Nickel. 8,973,640,257 tons of Graphite. 4,163,162 tons of Germanium. At todays mining rates that would take over 1000 years. Net Zero is a lie that will never happen.
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Documents filed by Xcel Energy for it’s Nobles Wind facility, 134 turbines. The wind turbines lasted 12 years. Cost to decommission $85,533,609. Cost to refurbish $204,000,000. But wait, let me show you how this scam works. #GreenEnergy thread 🧵
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I am going to do a thread on offshore wind turbines. I have been doing a lot of research on this. Wait until you see the grift on this one. The rich getting richer while robbing you blind, and in the process destroying the environment. #GreenEnergy
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The legacy of wind turbines. Millions of worn-out wind turbine blades, containing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonates. They cant be recycled so they are left to rot. #GreenEnergy
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Good morning it's a balmy -30 in Alberta and all I have to say is this. Thank God for natural gas. If we were dependent on wind turbines and solar panels we would all be dead. Charging us a carbon tax for trying to stay warm is outright criminal. #Axethetax
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A normal Honda Accord needs about 40 pounds of copper. The same battery electric Accord needs 200 pounds. Onshore wind turbines require about 10 tons of copper, and offshore approx. 20 tons. The world will need to mine 115% more copper than has been mined in all human history
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Did Boomers have it easier? Sure we did. At 17 you were kicked out of the house (your a man now boy). Rented a rodent infested farm house for $350 a month with two other friends and made $3.00 an hr. We drove beat up old pickups and bought a case of beer a wk. Life was grand.
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MiningWatch Canada is estimating that “[Three] billion tons of mined metals and minerals will be needed to power the energy transition” – a “massive” increase especially for six critical minerals: lithium, graphite, copper, cobalt, nickel and rare earth minerals.
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This 1 ton rock contains between 0.6 and 1 per cent of copper. One ton of ore generates a maximum 6 to 10 kilograms of copper. Depending on the size of battery, an electric bus can use between 224 and 369 kg of copper. How do we get the copper out of the rock? Mining 🧵
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Do you think solar panels are "Green" Think again. There is nothing green about solar panels. Did you know we clear cut forests, not for panel placement but for the wood needed to produce the panels. Don't believe me, have a read.
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I have seen the destruction of mountains, lakes and pristine waterways all in the name of #GreenEnergy. A recent report by the Blacksmith Institute identifies the mining industry as the second-most-polluting industry in the world. Soon to be Number # 1 Why? Green energy.
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Over the next 30 years 7.5 billion of us, we will consume more minerals than the last 70,000 years or the past 500 generations, which is more than all of the 108 billion humans who have ever walked the Earth.
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Wrap your head around this: Storing the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil, which weighs 300 pounds and costs $81.00 requires 20,000 pounds of EV batteries that cost $200,000. Now imagine how much mining we have to do in order make 20,000 pounds of battery. #GreenEnergy
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Purifying a single tonne of rare earths requires using at least 200 cubic meters of water, which then becomes polluted with acids and heavy metals. On top of that, imagine the destruction and energy required to obtain these essential metals:.
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Mining requires the extraction of solid ores, often after removing vast amounts of overlying rock. Then the ore must be processed, creating an enormous quantity of waste – about 100 billion tonnes a year, more than any other human-made waste stream.
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Green’ technologies require the use of rare minerals whose mining is anything but clean. Heavy metal discharges, acid rain, and contaminated water sources — it borders on being an environmental disaster. Put simply, clean energy is a dirty affair.
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By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste. #GreenEnergy
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18,740 pounds of purified rock to produce 2.2 pounds of vanadium.35,275 pounds of ore for 2.2 pounds of cerium.110,230 pounds of rock for 2.2 pounds of gallium.2,645,550 pounds of ore to get 2.2 pounds of lutecium. Also staggering amounts of ore are needed for other metals.
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Wind turbines guzzle more raw materials than previous technologies: ‘For an equivalent installed capacity, solar and wind facilities require up to 15 times more concrete, 90 times more aluminum, and 50 times more iron, copper, and glass than fossil fuels or nuclear energy.
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Ok, lets talk about EVs. How much mining is required to make an EV battery? Lithium brines typically contain less than 0.1% lithium, so that entails some 25,000 pounds of brines to get the 25 pounds of pure lithium needed to fabricate a single battery. #GreenEnergy 🧵
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If you’ve gotten this far still believing that renewables are clean and green, well, I have a bridge to sell you. We thought we could free ourselves from the shortages, tensions, and crises created by our appetite for oil and coal.
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As rare metals have become ubiquitous in green and digital technologies, the exceedingly toxic sludge they produce has been contaminating water, soil, the atmosphere, and the flames of blast furnaces.
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Instead, we are replacing these with an era of new and unprecedented shortages, tensions, and crises.
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By 2035, demand is expected to double for germanium; quadruple for tantalum; and quintuple for palladium. The scandium market could increase nine-fold, and the cobalt market by a factor of 24. (Marscheider-Wiedemann 2016 ‘raw materials for emerging technologies’.
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There is nothing refined about mining. It involves crushing rock, and then using a concoction of chemical reagents such as sulphuric and nitric acid, a long and highly repetitive process using many different procedures to obtain a rare-earth concentrate close to 100% purity.
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$582,000,000 spent every 24 hours worldwide to operate mining haul trucks. Each truck gets approx. 1/2 a mile per gallon, and you cant make #GreenEnergy without them. Things the green energy advocates and environmentalists never want to talk about.
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The potential demand for rare metals is exponential. We are already consuming over two billion tonnes of metals every year — the equivalent of more than 500 Eiffel Towers a day.
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Think of China. One-fifth of China’s arable land is polluted from mining and industry. Mining the materials needed for renewable energy potentially affects 50 million square kilometers, 37% of Earth’s land (minus Antarctica). Now imagine that number 10 fold.
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How do we make #GreenEnergy without sulphuric acid? Answer, we can't. Congo miners import about 3 million tons of sulphuric acid a year. Acid accounts for 16% of operating costs. Securing just 1 ton of rare earth elements produces 2,000 tons of toxic, radioactive waste. Green?
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Wait, so scientists have found Saturn’s largest moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth? Was there dinosaurs and plant life on Titan? Are they considered "fossil fuels" on Titan?
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Wind turbine gear oil $669.75 🇺🇸 891.97 🇨🇦 for 5 gallons. The average wind farm has 150 turbines. Each wind turbine requires 80 gallons of oil for lubrication. 12,000 gallons at a cost of $1,608,000🇺🇸 $2,100,000🇨🇦 The oil is changed out after the first 500 hrs. #GreenEnergy
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48,500 active haul trucks (over 90 tons) at surface mines worldwide. The cost to run each truck on average is $500 per hr. $582,000,000 spent every 24 hours worldwide to operate these trucks. Each truck gets approx. 1/2 a mile per gal. You cant make #GreenEnergy without mining.
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Concrete is the 3rd largest CO2 emitter, accounting for 4 to 8% of the world’s CO2. A typical wind turbine uses 566.89 tons of concrete. The production of 1 m³ of concrete requires 2,775 MJ of energy. Most of this energy comes from oil. 89 barrels per turbine base. #GreenEnergy
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A two mega watt wind turbine is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons of iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, and produced by hydrocarbons. A wind mill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much power as it took to build it.
Ontario's 5,000MW wind fleet is currently producing 37MW; 0.74% of nameplate; 0.16% of Ontario's electricity. Our grid mix is 52% nuclear, followed by gas at 22% and hydro at 18%.
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Thank you everyone, this tweet thread has been seen by over 4 million people. I have been contacted by Fox News, Liz Wheeler, professors, authors and podcast producers to do interviews. I live a quiet private life and have no interest in changing that. Again, thank you everyone.
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of "Green Energy" Follow along and I will explain. 🧵.
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1 ton of rare earth minerals produces about 1 ton of radioactive waste (Institute for the Analysis of Global Security). That means the U.S. wind industry may well have created more radioactive waste than our entire nuclear industry produced in spent fuel. #GreenEnergy
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$146 million dollars and 300 acres of land for a solar park in a province that has 563 Trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas. An NG plant makes power 24/7 and provides heat and electricity. This is making almost zero . We have idiots running this country.
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I get asked this question a lot, "How much fuel does that bad boy burn" The 9800 runs 2 engines, QSK 60s, each 2000hp. Each engine burns approx. 120 gallons per hour, 2880 gallons per 12 hr. shift or 2 million gals per yr. You cant make #GreenEnergy without a lot of diesel fuel.
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Out of the top 26 wind turbine blade manufactures, only 3 are in the United States, that means the majority of these blades have to be floated across oceans. It takes 30-40 days burning approx. 40 tons of fuel per day or 400,000 gallons one way. #GreenEnergy
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Sulfur extraction using the Frasch process. Super heated water injected into the earth. We need sulfuric acid to make #GreenEnergy This method releases toxic metals like arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, and chromium. Things they don't tell you about #GreenEnergy
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Universal basic income: When other men do the hard work so that you can sit on your ass and complain.
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So lets take a look at the new "Green" VW battery being built in Canada. How Green is it? The battery chemistry is Lithium iron phosphate or lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP). It requires Manganese, phosphate, iron, and lithium. #GreenEnergy 🧵
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Many on twitter will try to tell you all about mining without ever stepping foot in a mine. I encourage everyone given the chance to take a mine tour. Imagine the energy, mining/smelting needed to make a mining shovel, and that's just the start. 1.7 million pounds👇
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Ontario Canada facts about wind energy: Wind Companies can violate our Charter of Rights, supersede all municipal bylaws, and environmental & wildlife protection acts. Wind generation cost $12.760 billion over ten years from 2010 to 2019 to Ontario taxpayers. But "green" jobs?
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People love to tell me how "green energy" is made. Most of those people have never stepped foot in a mine. They sit in an air conditioned office counting beans believing #GreenEnergy falls out of a unicorns ass. Most couldn't do a hard days work if their life depended on it.
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It's 3:00 AM you get a call on the radio . "Hoist cables snapped need a mechanic" Welcome to my world. Yet many on here call me a weak ass boomer that had it easy in life. Well welcome to my easy. I worked for every dime.
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46 Reasons why wind turbines cannot replace fossil fuels. 1 Windmills require petroleum every single step of their life cycle. If they can’t replicate themselves using wind turbine generated electricity, they are not sustainable. 2 SCALE. Too many windmills needed to replace
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I just paid $22.00 for these. Farmer said it's been a banner year for growing strawberries. Thank God for CO2! The fuel that feeds us.
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A coal-fired power plant in China's Dai city. China emits more CO2 every year than the rest of the developed world combined—completely cancelling out all the sacrifices you are being forced to make in the farcical pursuit of Net Zero.
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Southern Ontario. We are farmers, miners and factory workers. Hard working men and women. We support Alberta oil, Prairie grain, BC lumber and Maritime fishing. Don't let one city define us, because it doesn't. We support a Strong United Canada. 🇨🇦
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It takes 112 children working a 12 hour day to make enough cobalt for one EV battery. #GreenEnergy
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35.7 °C Jul 6. 35.6 °C Jul 15.35.2 °C Jul 20.33.7 °C Jul 19.33.0 °C Jul 5.32.8 °C Jul 7.32.2 °C Jul 18.31.7 °C May 21.31.6 °C Jul 14.31.3 °C Aug 28.The summer of 1977.Southern Ontario 🇨🇦.47 years ago.Very few people had AC.How did we survive?.
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The consumption of material resources using the photovoltaic technology is at least 64 times that of nuclear energy. For the production of the solar-grade silicon for one square meter of panel area it requires 3.5 kg of concentrated hydrochloric acid. The weight of concrete,
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In order to transition half of the world’s energy to renewables, Lithium extraction would need to increase 2700%. Lithium requires 500,000 gallons of water to produce a single ton. The creation of the infrastructure required to produce “clean” energy is a ecological disaster.
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I was in the mining industry for 40 yrs, so it's second nature to me. Because of that, I think it's second nature to everyone else. I was wrong, it's not. So I'm going to put out a thread, mining A-Z. Getting tired of the armchair miners. Give me a few days. Thanks.
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I spent another $200 yesterday on supplies, preparing for what's coming. I suggest every Canadian get their ducks in a row. Prepare.
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In a solar park measuring 1,000 by 1,000 meters, there is 11 tons of silver. A single Tesla Model S contains as much lithium as 10,000 cell phones. An EV requires 6 times as many critical raw materials as a combustion engine – mainly copper, graphite, cobalt and nickel.
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I get a lot of replies on my tweets, "Make mining Green" Energy consumption of mining is 6.2% of the total global energy consumption. The annual global energy consumption is 580 million terajoules or the energy equivalent of a Hiroshima nuclear bomb going off every four seconds.
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They never include the energy and resources needed to make steel, aluminum, concrete, inverters, copper wiring, and all of the other materials needed in solar farms. This all takes a massive amount of mining, toxic chemicals and "fossil fuels". #GreenEnergy is the perfect scam.
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I get asked a lot, if you don't like (solar,wind) what's the alternative? I believe this is the future, SMRs, small modular reactors. It doesn't need FF backup and can power 300K homes. If they really wanted to "save the planet" they would be pushing these not dirty green.
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I have 1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers proving man made climate change is a scam. I will soon start dropping one Peer-Reviewed paper a day. Let the games begin.
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Greenpeace brought solar power to Dharnai India in 2014. The 100 kilowatt micro-grid provided electricity to more than 2200 people. The batteries died in 3 years. The solar micro-grid is defunct now and being used as cattle sheds. #GreenEnergy
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The U.S. GDP $24.8 trillion. Canada GDP $2.2 trillion. Trade war? April 1st the Canadian government increases the carbon tax by 23%. If I was an outsider looking in I would think the @liberal_party is doing everything in their power to bankrupt Canadians.
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It took 10,144,035 tons of Coal, 50,084,600 tons of Quartz, 11,271,150 tons of Charcoal and 5,635,575 tons of Woodchips to build this 345 acre 196,320 panel solar field in China, and that's just the metallurgical-grade silicon, not any copper, steels or plastics. #GreenEnergy
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The $5 billion Tesla “Gigafactory” in .Nevada is currently the world’s biggest battery .manufacturing facility. Its total annual production .could store three minutes’ worth of annual U.S. electricity demand. Now imagine the amount of mining we have to do in order to build this
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Storing the energy equivalent of 1 barrel of oil, which weighs 300 pounds, requires 20,000 lbs. of Tesla batteries ($200,000 worth). It takes the energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store the energy equivalent of 1 barrel of oil.
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Claims of wind turbine capacity value have been hugely exaggerated by wind industry officials, lobbyists and regulatory agencies. A 1 MW (1,000 kW) wind turbine that produces 2,190,000 kWh of electricity during a year has achieved a capacity factor of 25%. That is 2,190,000 kWh
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Securing just one ton of rare earth elements produces 2,000 tons of toxic waste. A wind turbine uses about a ton of these four rare earth elements. Neodymium,.Praseodymium,.Dysprosium and.Terbium. There is nothing "green" about #GreenEnergy
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As Warren Buffet said, "For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.".
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July 16, 2018: "The people in Jasper aren't saying they're wondering if the town's going to burn down, it's when the town is going to burn down," said Jasper resident David Millar. 98% of the pine trees in Jasper were infested by pine beetles and dead by 2019. They knew.
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Energy transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050 is never going to happen. At current rates of production it would take 9921 years for lithium, 7101 years for vanadium, 1733 years for cobalt, 400 for nickel, 189 for copper to build the renewables to replace fossil fuels by 2050
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31,487 American scientists have signed this petition,.including 9,029 with PhDs. There is no convincing scientific evidence of man made climate change.
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A single Tesla battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Overburden-Ore-Crushing-Milling-Chemicals-Toxic tailing ponds-Smelting-Manufacturing. How "Green" is it? It's not. Don't believe the #GreenEnergy lie's.
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Even if we managed to open hundreds of thousands of mines to complete the #GreenEnery transition it would take 4,575,000,000,000 tonnes of copper, 940 million tonnes of nickel and 944 million tonnes of Lithium. That's never going to happen.
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$6.7 trillion invested in #GreenEnergy since 2004. To continue this green dream the world will need 10 million tons of new copper supply over the next decade, or the equivalent of a new Escondida copper mine, the biggest in the world, into production every year. #GreenEnergy
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You see while the wind production tax credit make many rich, it's harmful for taxpayers and energy consumers. How the #GreenEnergy scam works.
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The hottest temp ever recorded in Ontario Canada. 42.2 °C (108 °F) July 11 and 12, 1936. Today it's 35/96F cooling off to mid 20s by Wednesday, and the climate nuts are losing their shit. The climate change was brutal back in 1936. #ClimateScam.
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For every 10 MW of wind power added to the system, at least 8 MW of back-up power must be dedicated. So you’re not saving on fossil fuels and often have to ADD fossil fuel plants to make up for the wind power when the wind isn’t blowing. In other words, wind needs almost 100%
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$40 Million tax payers dollars down the drain. Who would have thought people wouldn't want an electric snowmobile that had a 30 mile range. Canada is run by idiots.
Electric snowmobile trailblazer files for creditor protection: What went wrong?
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Electric vehicles show the highest toxicity on ecosystems and human health. Over their lifespan, they will produce more of every major category of pollutants than conventional cars, including an increase in fine particulate matter formation (26%), human carcinogenic (20%) and
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Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant China. Produces 4,120 MW of power. Up and running since April 1 1994. It would take approx. 29,000 acres of solar panels to make that kind of power and a ton of mining. What are we doing?
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Canada never had a pandemic. They lied so you would line up for the shot, and they continue to lie.
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To all my American friends: The corruption in Canada has escalated.
"The greatest threat—the one that I believe threatens the very existence of our democracy—is disinformation," Justice Marie-Josée Hogue says as she outlines findings in foreign interference inquiry's final report. #cdnpoli
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Mining requires a lot of explosives. 300 holes, each containing 1 ton of anfo. The toxic dust from the explosion would settle miles away. This is just another aspect of what it takes to make #GreenEnergy But they wont talk about that.
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When I was younger I asked my dad, what is a socialist? and he said, basically it's someone that wants every thing you have . except your job.
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To generate just half of U.S. electricity with wind would require 1,095,000 2 MW wind turbines. Each of them requiring 1,671 tons of material, including 1300 tons concrete, 295 tons steel, 48 tons iron, 24 tons fiberglass, 4 tons copper, and Chinese rare earth metals 0.4 tons of
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Each panel is a toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. As it leeches into the water table, it’s not difficult to imagine the effect on water supplies, the environment and human health. #GreenEnergy🧵
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