more articles summarized on my Makaipa blog.
when the Pope condemns destroying the environment, this is what he is talking about.
The problem? he remains vague about what is going on just making you feel guilty instead of naming the problem of corruption on many levels including bribery, stealing profits, etc...
the dirty little secret: Naming names would endanger those reporting on what is going on (which might of course lead to missionaries and human rights and medical personnel in that area being killed), and although pressure could stop western countries and make them mine without such human and environmental abuse, this is not true when China is involved.
the solution: Non cobalt batteries might be the solution, but they are alas only in their early development stage.
article on Telsa using non cobalt technology.
The first quarter of this year, amid the tremendous din of Musk’s desired acquisition of the social platform Twitter, Tesla revealed that nearly half of its vehicles produced in that time frame featured cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.
Simon Alvarez, in Teslarati, writes that LFP batteries are not new but make up little of the electric vehicle market in the United States, Canada and the European Union.
In China, however, the LFP batteries are 44% of the market. The LFP batteries are a component of the EV market that is being pursued by a number of automobile manufacturers as demand for cobalt continues to increase — and correspondingly its price. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, as reported in TheStreet, expects more than 30% growth in cobalt demand due to new model launches and government legislation.
A video on mining needed for e cars
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