To cite just one example of how un-costed Net Zero is, Michaux notes that “in theory” there are enough global reserves of nickel and lithium if they are exclusively used to produce batteries for electric vehicles. But there is not enough cobalt, and more will need to be discovered. It gets much worse. All the new batteries have a useful working life of only 8-10 years, so replacements will need to be regularly produced. “This is unlikely to be practical, which suggests the whole EV battery solution may need to be re-thought and a new solution is developed that is not so mineral intensive,”
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That's what I was fixin' to write. I saw just the other day a car bone yard in France where new EV's were being stored because they were crap cars. Why not rip the batteries out of those cars and recycle them? Hmmmm...something smells in Denmark. Plus, think about the oceans. Heck 3/4 of the Earth is covered in water. I bet if we could start mining the ocean floors there would be zillions of pounds of cobalt to bring to the surface.