No it does not make me an expert, it makes me informed. You mean to tell me that they lie? Or are you telling me that they tell the truth about one thing and not the other. News from around the world has run stories about this issue.
Naturally, just like the fires are not caused by battery vehicles right.
you might look into that again, but then as it is clear you don't trust news sources and published docs unless it lines up with what you feel, notice I said feel not think, I am not so sure you will bother.
Yes the propaganda starts with manipulating the young.
120 million tons of cobalt have been identified on the planet. Of that, 1 million tons reside in U.S. territory(=1/120). However, the latest USGS cobalt report estimates that only 69,000 tons can be “economically extracted or produced”
I wonder which vehicle young people would choose if schools offered preferred parking and low cost fueling of diesel vehicles
They would probably all be driving VW diesels getting 50 mpg.
That may be old data
The bottom fell out of the cobalt market for several reasons. The article below is why I commented that the data posted may be old. That was prior to several discoveries.
www.wyomingpublicmedia.org
Did not see anything about finding cobalt there, just rare earth minerals (cobalt is not a rare earth mineral). Important find but can it be mined economically?The bottom fell out of the cobalt market for several reasons. The article below is why I commented that the data posted may be old. That was prior to several discoveries.
Massive rare earth discoveries could mean a new mining rush in the Mountain West
The batteries in your cell phone, the glass in solar panels and other important materials all depend on rare earth minerals. That’s leading to a new mining rush in the West.
American Rare Earths owns about 8,000 acres of mining claims here – called the Halleck Creek Project – on a mix of private, federal and state land. The company announced promising results from exploratory drilling on Halleck Creek earlier this year, determining that there are about 5 million tons of rare earth oxides on their claims. This could make it the largest known deposit of these minerals in North America.
“We knew it was going to be big. We didn't know it was going to be a monster, in the good sense of the word,” said Mel Sanderson, North American president of American Rare Earths. “We've drilled to 150 meters so far, and it is consistently a rich, heavily concentrated deposit to depth.”