Why are Climate activists always the worst NIMBY’s around?
Thats great news! Having our own lithium production is a huge help for the green transition
This will be great. Sounds ideal having more locally produced raw materials and end products rather than shipping everything all the way across the globe. Bring a fair few much needed jobs to the area. Will bring in side industrys to support it. Cornwall already has a world-leading mine school – allowing young people to stay, get educated here, work here.
Battery tech etc will move on eventually though, requiring new materials – however the skills, industry and tech learned from this mining can be partilcally transfered into what ever is next.
Lithium is already on its way out as a battery tech.
It’s just a guess, but I suspect that it might be the rich?
Now we can have domestic children dying in lithium mines rather than exporting it to African nations. BIG WIN FOR BRITISH BUSINESS.
In all seriousness though, if this is handled well it’s great news. Hopefully the wealth created will go towards investment in Cornwall though, rather than Westminster’s pockets.
Sodium batteries are likely to overtake lithium by 2026.
Lithium in Cornwall. Cornwall once had Tin Copper Zinc Silver and Arsenic mines etc.
Well I don’t think it will benefit the people of Cornwall any profit generated will end up in some ones offshore bank account, after having paid off corrupt government ministers the people of Cornwall will see sod all!!!
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Apart from the mining impacts it will take a lot of energy to evaporate any concentrate, purify, melt and electrolyse it to get metallic lithium.
Lithium these days prolongs climate laziness. An EV needs about 20,000 miles just to break even on the carbon used in production while the batteries themselves are toxic. It will likely be exported to China in the end. Better public transport and cycling are going to be more impactful for society than swapping cars for EVs.
Not the Cornish that’s for fucking sure. We’ll still have rampant poverty in our rotting communities
400 litres of water per kilo in a part of the country counted as in drought.
renstseeking on all that water infrastructure is going to bite back on this.
Damn if we had our own consistent supply of lithium we would be balling
Oh cool. How long before the government sells it to another country for £10?
Who ever bribes the Tories the most, and the bribes can be deducted against taxes, and if there is major ecological disaster just increasing the bribes work all the time with the cunts the tories are
I want the mines to reopen but only if its going to be by companies in Cornish hands because what is it going to bring otherwise except yet more poorly paid jobs? It did sound exciting at first, South Crofty in mid Cornwall was the last mine in the UK to close I think I read.
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Why are Climate activists always the worst NIMBY’s around?
Thats great news! Having our own lithium production is a huge help for the green transition
This will be great. Sounds ideal having more locally produced raw materials and end products rather than shipping everything all the way across the globe. Bring a fair few much needed jobs to the area. Will bring in side industrys to support it. Cornwall already has a world-leading mine school – allowing young people to stay, get educated here, work here.
Battery tech etc will move on eventually though, requiring new materials – however the skills, industry and tech learned from this mining can be partilcally transfered into what ever is next.
Lithium is already on its way out as a battery tech.
It’s just a guess, but I suspect that it might be the rich?
Now we can have domestic children dying in lithium mines rather than exporting it to African nations. BIG WIN FOR BRITISH BUSINESS.
In all seriousness though, if this is handled well it’s great news. Hopefully the wealth created will go towards investment in Cornwall though, rather than Westminster’s pockets.
Sodium batteries are likely to overtake lithium by 2026.
Lithium in Cornwall. Cornwall once had Tin Copper Zinc Silver and Arsenic mines etc.
Well I don’t think it will benefit the people of Cornwall any profit generated will end up in some ones offshore bank account, after having paid off corrupt government ministers the people of Cornwall will see sod all!!!
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Apart from the mining impacts it will take a lot of energy to evaporate any concentrate, purify, melt and electrolyse it to get metallic lithium.
Lithium these days prolongs climate laziness. An EV needs about 20,000 miles just to break even on the carbon used in production while the batteries themselves are toxic. It will likely be exported to China in the end. Better public transport and cycling are going to be more impactful for society than swapping cars for EVs.
Not the Cornish that’s for fucking sure. We’ll still have rampant poverty in our rotting communities
400 litres of water per kilo in a part of the country counted as in drought.
renstseeking on all that water infrastructure is going to bite back on this.
Damn if we had our own consistent supply of lithium we would be balling
Oh cool. How long before the government sells it to another country for £10?
Who ever bribes the Tories the most, and the bribes can be deducted against taxes, and if there is major ecological disaster just increasing the bribes work all the time with the cunts the tories are
I want the mines to reopen but only if its going to be by companies in Cornish hands because what is it going to bring otherwise except yet more poorly paid jobs? It did sound exciting at first, South Crofty in mid Cornwall was the last mine in the UK to close I think I read.