We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need

Hahaha, how about reading the post before making an utter fool of yourself. That’s pretty typical for you OldDumbRocks. He makes a comment about gold mining in California and you post a graph about gold mining in the US. You are such a worthless idiot.
 
If the demand is there, the raw materials will be found and produced. Look at how many times this country and other producers of oil have pushed back the peak oil prediction. Peak oil output was predicted several times in history as far back as the 1880s. They’ve all been wrong so far.


How much gold has been found In California since they striped it bare?


Oil you can drill for, this you have to mine for .


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LOL How about researching before making yourself look like an utter fool?

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Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia


Can you ever comprehend something or read your own links.




In 2016 the United States produced 209 tonnes of gold, worth about US$8.5 billion, and 6.7% of world production, making it the fourth-largest gold-producing nation, behind China, Australia and Russia. Most gold produced today in the US comes from large open-pit heap leach mines in the state of Nevada. The US is a net exporter of gold.[4][5]
 
If the demand is there, the raw materials will be found and produced. Look at how many times this country and other producers of oil have pushed back the peak oil prediction. Peak oil output was predicted several times in history as far back as the 1880s. They’ve all been wrong so far.


How much gold has been found In California since they striped it bare?


Oil you can drill for, this you have to mine for .


.
LOL How about researching before making yourself look like an utter fool?

1200px-US_Annual_Gold_Production.png

Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia


Can you ever comprehend something or read your own links.




In 2016 the United States produced 209 tonnes of gold, worth about US$8.5 billion, and 6.7% of world production, making it the fourth-largest gold-producing nation, behind China, Australia and Russia. Most gold produced today in the US comes from large open-pit heap leach mines in the state of Nevada. The US is a net exporter of gold.[4][5]

Uh, no, OldRocksInHead can’t comprehend much of anything. It’s really best not to engage with him I have found. He will out stupid you every time.
 
Oh noes. ..wonder what will happen then, good thing will have a 400 year supply of coal left.


We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need


We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need



If we want to stop climate change, we’ll have to stop pumping out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In order to do that, we’ll need to replace all the sources of carbon pollution—like fossil fuel plants and combustion vehicles—with clean, renewable alternatives. But there’s a problem: According to a new study, we might not have enough materials to make that happen.

Plenty of high-tech electronic components, like solar panels, rechargeable batteries, and complex circuits, require specific rare metals. These can include magnetic neodymium, electronic indium, and silver, along with lesser-known metals like praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. These metals are mined in large quantities in countries around the world, and they make their way into the supply chains of all sorts of electronics and renewables companies.

A group of researchers from the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure determinedhow many of these important metals will be required by 2050 in order to make enough solar panels and wind turbines to effectively combat climate change. With plenty of countries, states, cities, and companies pledging to go 100 percent renewable by 2050, the number of both solar panels and wind turbines is expected to skyrocket

According to the analysis, turbines and solar panels might be skyrocketing a bit too much. Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution.
Engineer told me there was not enough silver to make that many panels.
 
We have so much coal under northern Illinois that you will never get to because of the tree huggers..


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Hard to believe but they had trouble digging wells in Western Ohio because the kept hitting Oil. Oil back then was not of much use. I know they drill in Eastern Ohio Guernsey Cnty for Natural gas and Hit it at about 3000 feet.
 
Show me a liberal wot has moved his/her/its family back into a cave and is living on unccooked, gathered grains and grasses and I'll show you a sincere climate change soldier.

If you want to hug trees for Mother Gaia, go right ahead. Just don't expect us to join you, hippy. We like electricity and indoor plumbing.

Remember, you being a dope doesn't make us hypocrites. We're not demanding anyone give up modern technology, so we're under no obligation to do so ourselves.
 
Also, there is a finite amount of space in which to put solar panels and windmills, and a finite amount of energy to be captured that way. Will it ever be possible to capture enough energy in these ways, to meet all our needs, even if we do have the materials to build those windmills and solar panels?

Yes.

That was easy.
 
Oh noes. ..wonder what will happen then, good thing will have a 400 year supply of coal left.


We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need


We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need



If we want to stop climate change, we’ll have to stop pumping out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In order to do that, we’ll need to replace all the sources of carbon pollution—like fossil fuel plants and combustion vehicles—with clean, renewable alternatives. But there’s a problem: According to a new study, we might not have enough materials to make that happen.

Plenty of high-tech electronic components, like solar panels, rechargeable batteries, and complex circuits, require specific rare metals. These can include magnetic neodymium, electronic indium, and silver, along with lesser-known metals like praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. These metals are mined in large quantities in countries around the world, and they make their way into the supply chains of all sorts of electronics and renewables companies.

A group of researchers from the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure determinedhow many of these important metals will be required by 2050 in order to make enough solar panels and wind turbines to effectively combat climate change. With plenty of countries, states, cities, and companies pledging to go 100 percent renewable by 2050, the number of both solar panels and wind turbines is expected to skyrocket

According to the analysis, turbines and solar panels might be skyrocketing a bit too much. Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution.
Engineer told me there was not enough silver to make that many panels.

Amount of silver needed in solar cells to be more than halved by 2028, Silver Institute says
 

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