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Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 08-27-2024
Interesting to hear some discussions about the growing black market in copper and some rare earth elements, in particular tellurium metal, yttrium and ytterbium. While the black market is not great for end users, the expansion of that market is a good sign for Australia. Much of these chemicals are used in trace amounts in SolarPV, Lasers, Energy Generation and Solid State devices, at the moment the world is only supplying about 1/20th of the potential demand just based on SolarPV alone and Australia is loaded in the stuff, which will attract the attention of some.
Gina and Twiggy will be bursting at the seems, both hold significant mining rights to various deposits around the country.
Which begs the question, will the environmentalists protest the mines when they know the resource is needed for Green Energy?
I feel some hypocrisy rising! :
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - Gointocarlton - 08-27-2024
(08-27-2024, 02:55 AM)LP link Wrote:Interesting to hear some discussions about the growing black market in copper and some rare earth elements, in particular tellurium metal, yttrium and ytterbium. While the black market is not great for end users, the expansion of that market is a good sign for Australia. Much of these chemicals are used in trace amounts in SolarPV, Lasers, Energy Generation and Solid State devices, at the moment the world is only supplying about 1/20th of the potential demand just based on SolarPV alone and Australia is loaded in the stuff, which will attract the attention of some.Slightly off topic but my niece bought a new house. They got permission to go there prior to settlement to do a few things. They found the all the copper piping under the house had been stolen!
Gina and Twiggy will be bursting at the seems, both hold significant mining rights to various deposits around the country.
Which begs the question, will the environmentalists protest the mines when they know the resource is needed for Green Energy?
I feel some hypocrisy rising! :
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 08-27-2024
(08-27-2024, 03:07 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Slightly off topic but my niece bought a new house. They got permission to go there prior to settlement to do a few things. They found the all the copper piping under the house had been stolen!Bastards, copper theft is happening all over the place.
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - kruddler - 08-27-2024
(08-27-2024, 03:07 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Slightly off topic but my niece bought a new house. They got permission to go there prior to settlement to do a few things. They found the all the copper piping under the house had been stolen!
That is not uncommon.
Varies area to area too.
Some areas you need to install the wiring, the insulation and the plaster all in the space of 24 hours.
If you wait any longer they strip the place of all the wiring because of the copper inside.
Copper is rarely used in new builds in favour of pex piping for the same reason.
Nothing worse than firing up your gas on your new appliance and realising that some of your pipework has gone missing,
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - Gointocarlton - 08-27-2024
(08-27-2024, 06:09 AM)LP link Wrote:Bastards, copper theft is happening all over the place.At least they had the sense to turn the gas off, else it could have been disastrous.
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - LP - 10-11-2024
It was interesting to read the latest reports coming from EU agricultural research.
Most common folk make gross assumptions about stuff "they know", in reality they are like Sergeant Schultz and know nothing!
A great example are climate change doubters telling us they know it's not real because it's raining, or because it's cold, or because it's snowing. But the latest research is showing it's not the world getting warmer at the poles that drives the biosphere as much as changes in precipitation and nitrogen cycle patterns. This is clearly demonstrated in old world Europe where long term multidecade records are kept and clearly show species an plants slowly migrating West at 2.6x the rate of North or South. We shouldn't be surprised, real life is never as simple as people think.
I have to wonder how long before migrating West is declared as proof climate change is bogus?
Perhaps the biggest fools among us are those that declare nothing is changing, and parrot on about how things have been the "same" for thousands or millions of years. (Actually, some of them claim about 6500 years!) :o
It's change, Jim, but not as we know it!
Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread - ElwoodBlues1 - 10-14-2024
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