Carbon capture is a ruse to get money the govt does not have to its friends. In order to create that pile of waste money, they are leveraging the O & G industry on the guise of climate warming and/or dirty burn.
Solar, carbon capture, wind are all ruse.
Hydrogen and Nuclear, not so much. All of that money should have been directed to those two sectors.
Oil & gas industry is getting much more involved in geothermal.
All these academic based folks and NGO groups talk about these theoretical pie in the sky ideas of clean or “renewable” energy (I believe fossil fuels are also renewable), but who actually has the expertise, ingenuity and money to make it actually happen on an efficient and economic scale?
That’s right. The “dirty” Oil & Gas and Petrochemical Industries!
The current lithium mining process is absolutely horrible for the environment, and basic human rights (child labor) as well in some countries.
However, the oil & gas industry is looking at safer, more enviro-friendly ways, such as lithium brine wells. Exxon has a huge position in Arkansas for this. Obviously, none of this can get to scale overnight, but it is being invested in.
Still, it’s your charging infrastructure across the country and the strain on the power grids. This is why we should have an “all hands on deck” approach to any energy sourcing that can be economically feasible for the developing industries and the consumers.
We are giving the future to China. We need to drop the foolish climate hoax crap and get serious.
China installs core module of world's first commercial small nuclear reactor
China is also doing this while we are dragging our feet in leaving our SPR at such low levels.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oi...-Drawdown.html
Some lump battery power in with other forms of energy.
Battery is not a source of energy, more of a pitstop.
Mining aside, bashing batteries would be like bashing the various fuel holding tanks along the supply chain through to the gas station.
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