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This article is written from a leftist perspective, but the dramatic increase in the mining of the elements necessary to produce "clean" energy is not generally discussed as part of the green new deal.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-limits-of-clean-energy?utm_source=pocket-newtab

That's a good article. You rarely see the left admit that their ideas have some serious problems. Of course AOC would dismiss them outright.

what would AOC know ,only thing she ever used green ,was when she poured green beer at the bar on ST.Patricks day

Clean energy concept is a wonderful way to move manufacturing jobs from developed countries to developing ones.

If you ever google the mining of rare earth elements in China you will see an ecological disaster just waiting to happen. Rare earth elements are used in making a lot of the new types of super batteries that the so called clean energy requires. There is nothing clean about this energy, but the ecological damage is far removed from the idiots pushing this agenda so they are either ignorant of it or chose to ignore it.

I built a super insulated solar home in 1982.
I hooked an anemometer up to a Pet computer to store wind data to prospect for windpower.
I designed windmill circuitry.

By 1994 I had figured out that environmentalists are just crazy crooks....and anti gun.

The compact florescent light bulbs contain mercury...that's really safe.