{"id":260223,"date":"2022-10-23T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260223"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:47:14","slug":"net-zero-bombshell-the-world-does-not-have-enough-lithium-and-cobalt-to-replace-all-batteries-every-10-years-finnish-government-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260223","title":{"rendered":"Net Zero Bombshell: The World Does Not Have Enough Lithium and Cobalt to Replace All Batteries Every 10 Years \u2013 Finnish Government Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Mossison \u2013 Daily Sceptic Oct 22, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero \u2013 witness last Wednesday\u2019s substantial vote against fracking British gas in the House of Commons \u2013 or busy scooping up the almost unlimited amounts of money currently on offer for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impracticable green technologies. Until the lights start to go out and heating fails, they are unlikely to pay much attention to a recent 1,000 page<\/a> alternative energy investigation undertaken for a Finnish Government agency by Associate Professor Simon Michaux. Referring to the U.K.\u2019s 2050 Net Zero target, Michaux states there is \u201csimply not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target\u201d.<\/p>\n

To cite just one example of how un-costed Net Zero is, Michaux notes that \u201cin theory\u201d there are enough global reserves of nickel and lithium if they are exclusively used to produce batteries for electric vehicles. But there is not enough cobalt, and more will need to be discovered. It gets much worse. All the new batteries have a useful working life of only 8-10 years, so replacements will need to be regularly produced. \u201cThis is unlikely to be practical, which suggests the whole EV battery solution may need to be re-thought and a new solution is developed that is not so mineral intensive,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

All of these problems occur in finding a mass of lithium for ion batteries weighting 286.6 million tonnes. But a \u201cpower buffer\u201d of another 2.5 billion tonnes of batteries is also required to provide a four-week back-up for intermittent wind and solar electricity power. Of course, this is simply not available from global mineral reserves, but, states Michaux, it is not clear how the buffer could be delivered with an alternative system.<\/p>\n

Michaux sounds a clear warning message. Current expectations are that global industrial businesses will replace a complex industrial energy ecosystem that took more than a century to build. It was built with the support of the highest calorifically dense source of energy the world has ever known (oil), in cheap abundant quantities, with easily available credit and seemingly unlimited mineral resources. The replacement, he notes, needs to be done when there is comparatively very expensive energy, a fragile finance system saturated in debt and not enough minerals. Most challenging of all, it has to be done within a few decades. Based on his copious calculations, the author is of the opinion that it will not go fully \u201cas planned\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, Sir David Attenborough concluded six episodes of pseudoscientific green agitprop Frozen Planet II by demanding that the world embrace Net Zero, \u201cno matter how challenging it may be\u201d. Net Zero is\u00a0a political command-and-control project, the full horror of which is yet to be inflicted on the general population. Michaux is quite clear what it entails: \u201cWhat may be required, therefore, is a significant reduction of societal demand for all resources, of all kinds. This implies a very different social contract and a radically different system of governance to what is in place today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, a radically different system of government is available in the People\u2019s Republic of China, but here the position on Net Zero is a tad more nuanced. Having lifted about a billion people out of starving poverty in the last 40 years and become the workshop for an increasingly complacent western world \u2013 all powered by fossil fuel \u2013 the cause does not seem so pressing. Speaking to the Communist Party Congress earlier this week<\/a>, President Xi Jinping sounded a note of caution and said \u201cprudence\u201d would govern China\u2019s efforts to peak and eventually zero-out carbon emissions. All of this would be in line with the principle of \u201cgetting the new before discarding the old\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China\u2019s coal production is reported to have reached record levels, while the Congress was told that oil and gas exploration will be expanded as part of measures to ensure \u201cenergy security\u201d.<\/p>\n

Michaux points out that nearly 85% of world energy comes from fossil fuel. By his calculations, the annual global capacity of non-fossil electrical power will need to quadruple to 37,670.6 TWh. In a recent report<\/a> for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), Professor Michael Kelly estimates that the U.K. electricity grid would have to expand by 2.7 times. This will involve adding capacity at eight times the rate it has been added over the last 30 years. If calculations are made for the need to rewire homes, streets, local substations and powerlines to carry the new capacity, the extra cost will be nearly \u00a31 trillion.<\/p>\n

In another recent GWPF paper<\/a>, the energy writer John Constable warned that the European Green Deal seems all but certain to break Europe\u2019s economic and socio-political power, \u201crendering it a trivial and incapable backwater, reliant on \u2013 and subservient to \u2013 superior powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

History provides us with many examples of weak, or weakened, tribes being overrun by stronger tribes. In the animal kingdom it is known as natural evolution. A 96-year old \u2018national treasure\u2019 preaches we have to pay any price to satisfy the new cult of the green god. Better costed and more rational views are available.<\/p>\n

Chris Morrison is<\/em> the <\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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