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Mineral Blindness
Simon Michaux Podcast on YouTube (1 Hour 19 min 19 sec)
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00:45 - Simon Michaux
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works
01:10 -
Energy Blind
02:58 -
Mintech
03:11 -
Geometallurgy
08:10 -
Fossil energies are finite
08:15 -
Mineral resources are finite
09:30 -
Volcanic reproduction of minerals
10:25 -
The fourth industrial revolution
14:20 -
Coking coal
15:08 -
Low carbon steel
15:59 -
Scalability
17:11 -
It takes decades to build a grid of new plants
19:40 -
19 terawatt powered society
20:44 -
In general we’re adding 1-2 nuclear power plants per year
22:19 -
Nuclear cannot scale up fast enough to replace fossil fuels
22:51 -
Base metals are recycled at 30-60% and technology metals don’t get recycled at all
24:09 -
Circular economy
25:20 -
Resource balanced economy
26:42 -
Quantitative easing
29:26 - Availability of
uranium
and
thorium
30:50 -
Energy properties
32:22 -
Cobb Douglas Function
32:50 -
Generation IV nuclear power
35:15 -
2018 Peak Oil
38:10 -
Extracting copper will become more difficult
40:28 -
Renewables: Right answer to the wrong question
42:35 -
Minerals in a wind turbine (2-ton neodymium magnet)
43:28 -
⅓ of current system will be electrified according to the European commission
43:43 -
There’s not enough time or materials to mine and replace lithium to meet goals by 2030
46:07 -
Brandenburg, Germany 100% renewable by 2030
52:03 - Manufacturing and raw material production in
Russia
and
China
52:38 -
Natural gas in Europe comes from Russia
53:50 -
Liquifying and unliquifying gas loses 30% of energy properties
58:04 -
Peak coal 2013
and
peak gas 2019
1:03:10 - Paul Ehrlich
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TGS Episode
1:03:20 -
Industrial fertilizer
1:03:40 -
We’ve lost 40% of arable land since 1960
1:05:45 -
Cuban response to oil embargo
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