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Day: March 5, 2024

San Diego man is first to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gases into the U.S. – ‘Accused of bringing hydrofluorocarbons…which violates regulations set in 2020 to slow climate change’

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-hart-arrest-charge-smuggling-greenhouse-gases-hfcs-us-san-diego-california-mexico/ By Emily Mae Czachor March 5, 2024 / 9:00 AM EST / CBS News A man has been arrested and charged in San Diego for smuggling greenhouse gases into the United States, marking the first prosecution of its kind in the country, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Southern California announced on Monday. Michael Hart, a 58-year-old San Diego […]

Watch: ‘Juice’ debunks claims that solar & wind power as ‘green’: To make one wind turbine, ‘we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, & 45 tons of non-renewable plastic’

Juice: Why Wind and Solar Make Our Power Grid Less Reliable: Excerpt: “Just to produce one turbine, we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, and 45 tons of non-renewable plastic. Then we’ve got to transport that and burn fuel, getting it all carried across the world and put up. And none of these things that go into a turbine are renewable.” 
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Energy analyst Mark P. Mills exposes folly of EVs being ‘Net-Zero’: ‘You have to dig up about 500,000 pounds of materials to make a single 1000-pound battery’

Mandating EVs in U.S. would require ’18 times current global production of cobalt…three quarters of lithium & half the world’s copper & rare earths. China dominates all these markets’

Wind Turbine Collapses: ‘Leaking Oil Everywhere!’ – ‘Wait, these ‘green’ wind turbines use oil???’ – Yes, avg of 12,000 gallons of oil for typical wind farm

Think EVs are ‘green’?! ‘Typical Tesla EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds & includes 26lbs of lithium, 10lbs of cobalt, 110lbs of nickel, 9lbs of manganese, 55lbs of copper, 44lbs of aluminum, 154lbs of graphite, plus, steel, plastic, & other metals’

By Ronald Stein P.E. & Dr. Cleveland M. Jones: Today, a typical EV battery for a Tesla sedan weighs 1,000 pounds and includes these minerals and metals:

  • 26 pounds of lithium
  • 10 pounds of cobalt
  • 110 pounds of nickel
  • 9 pounds of manganese
  • 55 pounds of copper
  • 44 pounds of aluminum
  • 154 pounds of graphite
  • Plus, steel, plastic, and other metals for the battery casing.

… To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 6,000 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.