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Many low-carbon technologies require copper. From renewable power installations such as solar panels and wind turbines, to modern applications including #ElectricVehicles, many of the key pillars of a low-carbon world rely on copper. More: #GlencoreCopper #MetalOfTheFuture

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Pawlo Dlaboha3 years ago

Glencore is a criminal organization and should be treated as such!

Pawlo Dlaboha3 years ago

Glencore is a criminal@organization. Period.

Mex Sim3 years ago

Copper is like meat in SA, anything with copper will be stripped so consumers will have to insure these products

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Wind and solar are sold as clean and sustainable, but eventually the hardware becomes waste. The US currently has 76,000 wind turbines and 650 million solar panels installed. The turbine blades alone represent 5.5 million tons of eventual waste. Existing US solar panels represent another 18 million tons. Unlike conventional power plants that can operate for 50 to 80 years or more, wind turbines and solar panels require replacement after 15 to 20 years (shorter by some studies). By 2050, cumulative global waste is projected to reach 200 million tons of wind turbine blades and 78 million tons of solar panels. Turbine blades are nigh on impossible to recycle. Solar panels are technically easier, but recovering many embedded materials is often expensive and uneconomic. Much of it ultimately faces the same destination: landfill. Wind and solar are labelled renewable, but there's nothing renewable about them.

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PM Carney: "Canada is on a path to become a low-risk, low-risk being one of the most important elements here, low-cost and low-carbon supplier that the world needs."

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Electroverse

12,655 views • 29 days ago

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John Lee Pettimore

120,600 views • 8 months ago

"Net zero is... anti-human at its core." Neil Oliver calls out the ludicrous climate policies pushed by the "parasite class". "Smothering arable land with solar panels while simultaneously spending billions... on technologies to dim the sun—the same sun that powers the solar panels." "They cut down trees by the forest full so that they can make the wood into pellets to burn for power, and then spend more billions developing machines to capture carbon from the air, which is precisely what trees do if they're left to be trees." "We are made of carbon and yet they preach zero carbon." "Carbon dioxide is at low levels in the atmosphere already... If it had got much lower, life on Earth would have been impossible." Credit: Neil Oliver

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