The renewable advocates, the greens (pox on our land), the progressives - this compendium of bleeding-heart, save-the-planet do-gooders have ZERO idea on how the world will cope with their agenda
And they dont care. Religion is the master
At the leadership level, they know the impossibility of what they propose but they obfuscate and offer lollies to the minions who, like lemmings, line up dutifully at the edge of the cliff
Just one example of the idiocy of their plan
The UK, as they leap off the cliff, have indicated they want 2050 to be the year they smash into the rocks below
So how does that happen?
A\and this is but one country......
UK electric cars will require twice the world’s supply of cobalt
A team of scientists has written to the Committee of Climate Change warning that if the UK’s 31.5 million cars are replaced by electric vehicles by 2050, as is currently planned by the Government, this will require almost twice the current annual global supply of cobalt.
The researchers have also calculated that based on the latest ‘811’ battery technology (80 per cent nickel, 10 per cent cobalt, 10 per cent manganese), UK demand for EV batteries will require almost the total amount of neodymium produced globally each year, three quarter’s of the world’s lithium, and “at least half” of the world’s copper.
Cobalt: the electric car's dirty secret
The letter, authored by a team of eight scientists headed by the Natural History Museum’s head of earth sciences, professor Richard Herrington, explains that to replace the UK’s cars with EVs will require 207,900 tonnes of cobalt, 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate and “at least” 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, as well as 2,362,500 tonnes of copper.
Furthermore, the Committee on Climate Change, an independent statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008, has previously called for all new cars and vans to be zero-emission by 2035. Professor Herrington and his colleagues estimate that to make the (roughly) 2.5 million new cars sold each year in the UK electric “will require the UK to annually import the equivalent of the entire annual cobalt needs of European industry.”
