Captain Caveman
Platinum Member
Copper, yes, the EV infrastructure needs tons of the stuff. Humans have only mined 20% of the earth's copper in history (or is it 12%, can't remember), wait until the nut job climate freaks get their way with EV's. We can't fix stupid and the stupids are rushing in.I have flown over these in the Eastern US many times. Far more of these than there are of lithium mines. And I can show you pictures of strip mines for copper, nickel, iron, and many other minerals. But asshole hypocrites never object to these.
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Mountaintop Mining Is Destroying More Land for Less Coal, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Strip mining across the mountaintops of Appalachia is scarring as much as three times more land to get a ton of coal than just three decades ago, new research shows. The data and a series of new maps that track the spread of surface mining across the region suggest that even as the industry has […]insideclimatenews.org