On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:09:36 +0100
marc <marcxdv@???> wrote:

> Hello
>
> > You might be quite surprised as not only is the lithium tough to
> > source the cobalt is worse and both are very important at the
> > moment for contemporary Li-ion battery manufacture.
>
> Ooh, I can't go to bed. Somebody on the internet is wrong :)
>
> Lithium is actually quite common. See the "Occurrence"
> section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium
>
> "as common as chlorine in the earth's crust" is the TL;DR
>
> As for cobalt. LiFePo batteries replace the cobalt with
> iron - the "Fe" stands for iron. So that problem is solved.
> Done. Dusted. And sodium is about to replace lithium too.
>
> But even if the propaganda is out of date, there
> is a teachable moment here. Notice how we are told that
> cobalt is a conflict mineral. Perhaps. But also note how
> nobody talks about "conflict gasoline" which is a
> way bigger problem. Do you ask your friends if they
> their gasoline purchase is funding a dictatorship
> or war somewhere ? Odds are it does.
>
> The flow of oil in the world is a major geopolitical
> lever. A quarter of world shipping is petroleum and
> its products. Established powers use this as a means to
> dominate lesser ones. China, for all its flaws, has figured this
> out and is solving it by moving to solar and EVs.
>
> This shift will favour the developing world. Not only
> are they the ones being dominated, rather than doing the
> dominating, they also tend to be closer to the equator
> where winters are minor, and batteries only need to last
> the night rather than a long, dark winter.
>
> When you read the news that EV sales are sluggish
> and then a month later that EV tariffs are going up
> then what your are witnessing is a disinformation effort
> very similar to the one that had us believe that smoking
> does not cause cancer or that climate change is a mean
> hoax by dorky scientists.
>
> Remember: The citizens of developed democracies are typically
> victims of much more sophisticated propaganda than those
> living under dictatorships. The propaganda of dictatorships
> can be crude as the citizens there don't get to vote.
> Democracies need to distract their citizens, to make elections
> a pointless spectacle and a sideshow. Don't be a victim.
>
> regards
>
> marc

The question arise spontaneously, are you
part of this much more sophisticated propaganda?

Ciao,
Tito