DIVESTING FROM THE GREEN NEW DEAL
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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#GreenNewDeal #DirtyEnergy
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| 0:00.0 | John Kerry was just interview recently and you know we're racing towards the electric vehicles |
| 0:06.7 | I've lived California said they're by 20 30 they want all electric vehicles. This is what John |
| 0:11.3 | Kerry has just said John Kerry says green energy transition isn't happening fast enough. Everything |
| 0:15.7 | has to accelerate. He's talking a 20 times faster for electric vehicles, but as we've talked |
| 0:21.0 | about there's a problem here. He's bringing into his cell phone from his own private jet, |
| 0:25.3 | you know. |
| 0:26.3 | It's exactly. So there's a problem with that though because these batteries they require |
| 0:32.1 | lithium. They require coal ball lithium in South America's lithium flats and in the Congo |
| 0:37.5 | with a coal ball mining you have basically slave labor and kids that are working down |
| 0:41.8 | there doing this and it's it's an environmental disaster and here's you know luckily we have |
| 0:46.1 | some balance in the reporting here. Here's one of the headlines here elephant in the room |
| 0:49.9 | clean energies need for unsustainable minerals. So they're finally realizing people are finally |
| 0:54.5 | this is like a topic at you know dinner tables now that these minerals are unsustainable |
| 0:59.3 | and we're rushing this push into this and we don't really have a contingent plan for |
| 1:03.9 | how we're going to find all these minerals. But also the renewables themselves they rely |
| 1:08.1 | on energy storage. Now where we're talking about cars when we're talking about tire |
| 1:12.1 | grids for cities and some more conversations are coming out to balance this and this people |
| 1:16.8 | are saying look this isn't really realistic. This is a study just recently. This is the |
| 1:20.6 | headline here lack of energy storage makes renewables only grids a pipe dream and it says |
| 1:26.1 | in here renewables only grids require large amounts of electricity storage to make them |
| 1:30.7 | viable. However the world currently lacks any power storage technology that is both |
| 1:35.3 | affordable and scalable as the papers author Francis Menden explains the amount of storage |
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