The Dark Side of Electric Cars
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2022
- China is snatching up the key ingredient for EV batteries.
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Glad she brought up the "how about public transit". Cars and the infrastructure aren't inherently the problem but, here in the US, our infrastructure has all but abandoned public transit and built entirely around cars
Self driving car are also public transport
@@Deveonn but that wasn't solve traffic problem
Just copy other country like in europe or east asia,make public transportasi as good as possble
If there is better public transit, then there would also be less traffic for all those who are too good to be around other people.
@@Deveonn just build trains duh
What about people that live in rural areas? Public transport does not exist nor is it practical
I understand that you mention China owning a significant number of mines, but it should be noted the Europeans, Americans and Canadians far outnumber the Chinese in terms of mining Cobalt and other minerals in East Africa. In my country, Barrick Gold from Canada managed to avoid 40 million in Taxes to my country through and elaborate scheme. Things will only become positive when we as Africans seize the means of manufacturing and trade of our own materials.
Oh really?
By Africans, you meant "the others" i.e. China? I don't see Africans seizing their own resources any time soon, one hopes they did but unlikely.
I really hope Africa can take the opportunity to get industrialized and get rich when China is getting all the kinds of western pressure. I'm sure that when this game is over, whoever wins will try to make Africa stay poor like it always been. The only difference is that the western is a hypocritical aggressive defender and China is a realistic defensive aggressor. China accepted the rules created by the west and you guys will play by the rules until new rules come out.
@@kaymanwang
Don't kid yourself, everybody sees themselves as angels, the Chinese are no angels by any means like you try to make them out to be :D
@@BioLogicalNerd there aren’t any angels until Africa is allowed to run herself
@@BioLogicalNerd How did you read that as him saying the chinese are angels
Johnny and Cleo should do a whole series/podcast together. I love Johnny’s maps and catastrophic outlook on the direction of the world and I love Cleo’s ability to reel that back in and offer solutions. A perfect pairing!
These two make a perfect team; it's enlightening to see that not everyone is blindly following major EV makers like Tesla. Really hoping to see more collaborations like this; they should take a trip to the Netherlands and partner with the NotJustBikes channel or BicycleDutch 🚲🌍
As someone who lives in the car capital of the world it’s really hard to explain how much public transit is a solution that is overlooked and under funded as a solution that doesn’t involve getting Chinese control or mining finite resources
nah, id rather be in a war with china than taking the tram to work!
Public transit only answering the problem of urban and metro population's traffic where it's high density and the roads can't expand anymore but it's not the answer in rural or low density town's traffic. We still need to build green car infrastructure for travelling in rural/low density area while simultaneously building high capacity public transit in metropolitan town.
Cycling infrastructure has been a solution in many cities outside car-crazy North America. AFAIK my aluminum bike frame contains silicon and magnesium but no cobalt.
Detroit?
@@fjp3305 you guessed it
You should do another video on how America became so car-centric in the first place. Massive lobbying led to an America where car travel is literally the only way to get round, and massive lobbying is still going on to keep it that way. While (like Cleo said) investing in public transport and better civil planning is objectively the better way to go.
Knowing this, I still think cars are a vital part of the american freedom ethos and should be kept as a major form of transport
The government fails at everything it touches. They will fail at public transportation, and will use planning to coral people. Allow free market...... stop subsidizing, and stop lying. We can and have built engines that utilize electrolysis and are exvlusively hydrogen and oxygen as by products. Free market is the answer. Gov is the problem.
@@Cecilia-ky3uw Freedom from what? That's gotta be the stupidest reason to continue America's car-centrism.
It’s not an ethos.It’s generations of marketing influence by auto manufacturers.
@@niokat3866 it is much harder to stop cars than trains and buses, since the bus driver will be under the authority of the government and trains require rail
I like the thermal stability point you talked about of cobalt which is true, heck even metal recycling plants are focussing on it. One part I missed is the effect of regulation/subsidies on the reason why lithium and cobalt batteries are so wanted
I’m Chinese once worked in Africa on mining for years.
One thing I want to clarify is that we won’t hire or force any children to do the mining job. We have plenty of mining equipment why hire children to do it?
Only in America can you be called “pie in the sky” for suggesting that you should invest in public transport 🙄🙄🙄
You been watching the news and the explosion of crime across parts of the US? We literally just had a terrorist attack in New York City from a shooter who was racist against white people...what good is public transportation if it's not safe to use? At least in my own car i can go my own way and ensure my own safety.
WELL NEW YORK HAS ONE OF THE MOST WELL CONNECTED PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN THE WORLD
Only communists and socialists like "public" transportation. Raping the planet for non rewenable resources in personal vehicles is for people that want freedom.
Problem is it has to be made first before people will use it
@@jatinsinghyadav5941 only 49 states to go then 🙄
YES on Cleo's last point. Places like Amsterdam and Tokyo are designed in such a way where you don't even need a car. You can get everywhere you need to go via public transport, bike, or on foot. No problematic new technology needed, just smart, thoughtful design. Shoutout to Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns for increasing awareness of good design.
There are a few cities that have good public transit, but the US really just needs to expand their bus network and allow for more biking and walking to those bus stations.
shoutout to the r/fuckcars community aswell
@@KRYMauL . Look up the channel Not Just Bikes. Its a lot more than just the type of transportation. Our infrastructure design in the US is terrible.
@@KRYMauL As channels like Not Just Bikes have pointed out, the way cities in the US are planned and constructed (lots of suburbs, zoning laws) makes it almost impossible to have a good public transport system. American cities would need to be denser and less segregated (segregated in housing and business areas) to make a car not necessary. I have lived in severeal medium to big cities all over western Europe, never needed more than 10 minutes to reach the next supermarket by foot.
@@chwa7774 That's Strong Towns mate.
The best part about electric cars is that electricity appears out of thin air. Seriously how do you think the power to charge any of those batteries is made? Inconvenient facts not addressed at any point!
And they didn't even touch the topic of LITHIUM mining. Ya know, the main ingredient to a battery.
@@datphatkat7210 and the fact that stuff like this isn’t recycled and just ends up where ever polluting the soil, water, earth and more
Replacing gasoline vehicles with electric is the biggest scam of the modern world. Fossil fuel is still needed to supply electricity for the vehicles and Fossil fuels are used in the mining process and every other process in the production of electric vehicles; Global pollution will take a global effort.
I know this is not kind of the "best option", but i think it's the less troublesome one for me:
1- Either goverments invest more on public transport (especially metro and Natural Gas powered BRTs)
2- Find a way to make biofuels that don't create CO2 as a byproduct.
I just think it could go that way.
Watch America show on history channel. From the beginning when America 1st became a country.
Most batteries made for EV's in China right now don't have cobalt, they're lithium iron phosphate batteries.
and the technology advance fast …..
You need more likes so that Johnny sees this.
Exactly. Newer batteries like LFP use no Cobalt and Tesla for example, even though it produced most EVs last year, they used less Cobalt than VW. Kind of disappointing that he didn’t mention alternatives for Cobalt or if it is even necessary (which it isn’t).
+1 for this, Cobalt is being phased out. It's finite, expensive, vulnerable to monopolisation but probably going to be replaced by solid state batteries. Why undermine EVs by only looking at one ingredient that will be phased out...
@@schraderclemens6122 doesn't fit his narrative i guess.
"A cleaner future is a cleaner future, just with problems we still have to solve" That sentence really connected with me.
Did not resonate with me. 🤦♂️
It's wishful thinking for the rich, but illusion for the poor. A cleaner future for whom? People are struggling with basic things such as food, water and shelter in some places. Their priority certainly isn't a sustainable future if they don't have a future, or a present.
@@paulskiye6930 That's missing the point though, isn't it? More CO2 in the air, and therefore climate change, will only increase those basic need problems of food and water.
The problems of e.g. mining cobalt are absolutely there, but the argument I think is that this is a solvable problem, and also a much smaller (and localized) problem than climate change, which affects anyone, including the poorer countries.
In this case, I'd argue non-action (that is, not switching from fossil to electric) is actively more harmful to humanity as a whole, as non-action keeps worsening the climate,, affecting everyone. Whereas action causes a set of different problems, which we can solve.
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@@dykam my point is: we all know the alternative is better for us. But require investment of time and labour for the long-term. But for those in poor countries, they don't have the ability to do so, or have different priorities.
They have to worry for their day to day survival: i.e. food, shelter and water. They don't have the luxury to think about it or plan for the future, while their present is already fragile and threatened. They need to survive first after all.
The heading of video is " The Dark Side of Electric Cars" and Thumbnail is showing pic stating "China Controls the Minerals".
This is enough to understand prejudice.
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This is the first video ever where he doesn't use paper sheets with things printed on them.
I'm actually impressed.
He's come a long way since he did that terrible video about "American breakfasts" where he didn't actually talk about all the things Americans really eat for breakfast.
🤣😂
Johnny if you read this use less paper because paper made from tree xD
@@Strideo1 not sure what you're on about, most of the foods he mentioned in that video were accurate as to what Americans eat for breakfast. I live in America lmao
Of course, Exxon, Shell and all the oil companies _hate_ electric cars.
Just like US Warmonger, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, etc _hate_ Russia Ukraine Peace Talk. These Warmongers love to send more weapons to Ukraine to ensure that the war won't end!!
Chinese are actually big on cobalt free batteries. Tesla also buys these LFP batteries as basically the only western carmaker.
yeah it is ironic
@@user-gc1hg9sp9k Lol
The whole industry has drastically reduced cobalt usage. Johnny is pushing out of date narratives used by propagandists to delegitimize renewables. He’s pushing narratives, not reporting. He does this consistently these days
Additionally, Tesla’s next generation 4680 batteries are cobalt-free and have begun mass production. Scaling the production batteries is truly the difficult part and most auto makers will see tremendous headwinds.
@@willitbreak5825 Honestly it sounds to me like China actually won *too big* on this one. They made an investment in monopolising a mineral hoping it would be important and it ended up *so important* that the monopoly became a matter of national security for most nations. Hence speeding up a cobalt-free process that otherwise would be decades behind.
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There's the question of just how much energy, and what kind that's required for the recycling process itself?
Thank God people still have some brains in their heads ! 👍
Thanks Cleo for mentioning the matter of Public Transit. We are just forgetting it for the sexier EVs.
Where is the new video?
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Public transport is horrible in developing nations. India including
Bangladesh a EV koi vai. Amra ekhono eet ar goru transfer er jonno 'fatfatiya' power tiller use kori.
and a pro pakistani radical like you are here to copy paste the content !
I think you should talk with "strong towns" ,"city beautiful" or "not just bikes". They talk about how we build out cities and towns directly leads to overuse of cars and poor resource management just by the zoning and types of houses we are forced to make.
Yes, time to talk beyond geopolitics and instead on good urban and transport planning
100%! Love those channels
all are good but sure love "not just bikes"
Johnny Harris the great white saviour
I can see the strong towns message fit into his type of format. And I would enjoy watching it! Granted, I've only seen not just bikes presentation of the ideas, but those videos were great.
This was way more balanced and nuanced than the title led me to believe. Loved Cleo’s take on the problem as being significant but solvable.
I love investigative journalism like what your doing..it opens peoples eyes and its another level of knowledge that you shared to people.. thank you.. I know it's a hard core research.. your amazing.. 👏 👏 👏
Chinese are actually big on cobalt free batteries
So is Tesla. Over fifty percent already ) lots built in China, though).
It's called the lithium iron phosphate, the LFP and the LiFePO4. There's no raw materials issues except for the lithium, which isn't much of the percentage of the elements in any li-ion cell.
@@fireofenergy pretty sure Tesla is a failed experiment as many and many people are regretting the purchase
BS
I’m so happy that Cleo mentioned investment in public transportation because the solution is staring us in the face.
yeah, public transport is overlooked imo, some people have to drive. but most will be perfectly fine with it being a minor inconvenience at worst.
with ze peasents? le gross.
Why are you posting multiple OP comments here? Are you a shill?
yesss. There is a reason why almost all former eastern bloc countries invested massively in public transit. Because it uses the least resources and yields the best results, albeit the reasons were different back then, namely the lack of resources. But nowadays with an overabundance of resources, the same technologies (and city planning) like rail infrastructure, electrification (from renewables), trolley buses and light rail can help us solve our pollution and emissions problems.
not to mention the ecomomic mobility, not having a car and being poor in this country is a death sentence unless you're fine with living where you are for the rest of your life
Can you do an up to date version of this? Love to hear your thoughts.
Sometimes when you learn about the challenges, it is easy to get bogged down or even overwhelmed. That is where Cleo comes in! If we look at China owning cobalt mines as merely a challenge to overcome, then we can think of ways to progress in ways that are more friendly to the environment as well as non-exploitative to other cultures. We can do that for a large assortment of challenges as well. It would be huge if we can make it true!
As if the USA has ever cared about workers rights around the world. Just recently the supreme court refused to ban cocoa farmed using slave labor in US allied countries. In fact the USA has staged coups in the past to increase exploitation of workers and protect the interests of big business, like in Guatemala when they toppled an elected government to install a brutal, mass murdering dictatorship, just so Chiquita (the united fruit company) could keep workers in terrible slave like conditions. The only reason China can get away with its neocolonialism is that it is friendlier and less exploitative than the imperialism of the USA and the IMF. The USA only has itself to blame for this.
Very true.
Not sure that China is any better. They aren’t installing puppets but they support dictators and are eliminating their own people, the Uyghurs in a genocide. They’re back Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sure America did some dastardly stuff 100 years ago and. Favored dictators over communist dictators(remember communism killed 100 million people between Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao) but you look far enough into history and everyone was murderous and backwards.
But if we’re talking about today, I’ll take western morals over China’s totalitarianism any day.
@@jdotsalter910 That 100 million figure is completely doctored, it counts nazi soldiers as victims of communism for example, and by the standards of the book it came from, capitalism has killed billions since the 1700s. The USA's imperialism doesn't stop 100 years ago either, or even 50 if you include the reprehensible stuff the Chicago boys did alongside Pinochet's fascist dictatorship in Chile or right wing death squads mass murdering suspected communist sympathisers Indonesia in the 80s (read the Jakarta method) or installing and supporting a right wing dictatorship in south korea that lasted until quite recently, it is still going on today. Slave labor in prisons, bombing the shit out of iraq and afghanistan, supporting Israel's ongoing campaign of genocide against Palestine and its people, providing bombs and bombers for Saudi Arabia's invasion of Yemen. And the only reason the USA has scaled down its genocide of indigenous people is that this genocide was carried out successfully. This genocide even served as a blueprint for the nazis, only difference was that they did it in europe with more advanced technology at their disposal.
@@jdotsalter910 the west has no morals. Neither does china, but don't pretend the west has any either.
In the "past."
I think this story was always about China not about clean energy or transport. You forgot to mention that the largest cobalt mine in DRC was acquired by the Chinese from an American investor. But let us not forget how many coups and dictators have been supported by the West for the purposes of controlling crude oil.
Exactly, globalists, corporations, distractions
Yes i was also hoping for a perspective on how to counter the enroaching chinese incursions and infiltration bids into Africa, especially in the DRC with regard to Cobalt mining.
It doesn't mean China is allowed to do the same, if others are doing too.
@@nayaktuhin no, but why single out China? Look at the perspective, at least China didn’t go to Africa with guns and bombs.
Because it's a problem if China does it with a win-win solution.
But it's not a problem if the West does it with a win-lose solution.
The problem is that such batteries need to be recharged, which means that the environmental cost is passed on to power plants, which for the most part continue to run on fossil fuels.
I definitely think the point about not throwing the baby out with the bath water is a very good reminder for people. Our current clean energy solutions are not flawless, but that doesn’t mean we should give up on switching to clean energy, it just means we need to continue working to fix the problems that exist with green energy.
Great video, tho this kind of behaviour is not only exclusive to China. If the US (or any other nation) had the foresight to take control of these mines, the situation would be the exact same. I'm not trying to let China off the hook here, but this is a global problem. Hopefully these mines will someday be owned by DRC itself.
china is just doing what the west has done in these countries for many decades
Yes, start thinking about the future of mankind, not just start another complaining game, be positive and constructive.
Not really, as a "democratic republic" i think it doesnt change much or evwn becomes worse
@@wm4934 you can stop trying to avert the blame
@@Cecilia-ky3uw Yeah... It's not like they are actually democratic. The government are happy with dealing with China. I bet they have pocketed a lot from the deal too. It would only work if the people of the country actually rise up and revolt to form an actually decent democracy. But based on the poverty, education of the locals and who they are involving, China, I can't see a democracy happen in a hundred years.
you absolutely forgot to mention that the US is ALREADY doing the same thing in Latin-America with the litium mines 😒
Good video though 👍
Difference being, I suppose, that those companies are not directly or indirectly state-owned. They're private companies doing the bidding and the contracting with very few, if any, ulterior political motives. They just care about profit, and how far local governments will let them go to maximize those profits.
@@erickpalacios8904 and what differences does that make? You want China to play fair and let their private companies to compete? 😂
@@erickpalacios8904 Elon Musk: We coup whoever we want. The west does way much worse and Johnny will never mention that in his video.
@@erickpalacios8904 Why do you guys cream over Western illusions of separation of business and government when businesses lobby for policies and have deep ties with politicians? US companies IS the US government.
Why do foreigners make the US, center of the world?
Fun Fact about green energy: When power companies put up a new Green Energy site, they put up an equal-sized conventional plant somewhere else on the grid, which has to run the same time as the new Green plant. The reason for this is simple: if the grid goes down one volt below the minimum, the whole grid goes down. The tricky bit is that Green plants aren't consistent, but the demand is *constant.* Batteries can store a lot, but building enough batteries to store enough power to cover the gaps for an entire grid is possible, but that's a lot of heavy and rare metals being mined, eats up a lot of real estate and it's still both a limited resource and causing some massive human costs in the process.
The problem is that, if the grid goes down and everyone can't watch the big game for six hours cause the wind's down or the clouds are out, people would be rioting in the streets. Power companies *cannot* afford that, in the PR or monetary sense, so they're obligated to put up those conventional plants to run as backups for the Green plants to meet their shortfalls. Ironically, one of the best power sources by their standards is dams, since it's zero emissions and has a controllable (and thus consistent) output.
Nuclear is also Zero Emissions, but then it has it's own problems. The only truly No Harm power source is Geothermal, but that's limited by location.
Not sure why this focuses on EVs. Cobalt is also used in the refinement of crude oil to extract sulfur which, if not removed, produces compounds leading to acid rain. The oil industry continues to use significant amounts of cobalt for desulfurization, while the EV battery industry is already moving on to other chemistries.
I feel like you are more concerned that China controls these new resources.
I dont think the mining operations would have been any different if it were some other country in control of this...
West has its fair share of exploit and pillage in course of history, by no means I am supporting China for this, its just that it has been there before anyone would have gauged the potential for cobalt.
Uganda and Africa in general has been exploited by west for centuries before China came in lately for its share...
And for evs to be greener theres been a study that only after some 30-40k miles they get even with ICE cars depending on the way a country produces its energy.
Why are you so obsessed about China? 😂 I literally want it to become the World leader and clapback USA
@@pinknailsworldseries367 I am not!
I am against the entire EV paradigm, unless we don't find some serious solution for recycling batteries, I reckon this EV thing(and our electronics in general) would be more detrimental in every possible way. World cannot bear a fleet of zillion cheap EVs coming out of China.
The technology seems to be ever evolving like our electronic gadgets, and soon all these outdated ev's will be out phased by every other generation to come(with more range and gimmicks)...cant imagine the ewaste this would end up producing.
I still think efficient fossil fuel vehicles make much more sense till we have proportionate amount of recycling for the EV industry.
And that my friend is the main issue here...Instead of addressing the elephant in the room, I find this type of content 'A MERE RANT'..."ooo look what China is doing, here..." that just goes on and on...with zero impact
Half of what china produces is for the 'so called developed nations...', stop procuring and outsourcing
When China was dirt poor and the west invested heavily into that country to make China the west's source for cheap labor, no one seems to call it an exploitation. I don't understand Harris's concern. The reason why the Chinese accepted what fundamentally was a bad deal was because China was weak. China saw the bad deal as a tuition fee to learn technologies from the west (China didn't steal those technology. They traded it with blood and sweat, like literally - chinese labors are cheap for a reason)
DRC's situation is similar to what China had gone through. Poor nation being heavily invested in for resource they have.
The Chinese will not care about how the DRC runs their country. The Chinese only want to do business. And this business is a life line to the DRC. They are so technologically backwards that cobalt aren't useful to them at all. Right now, DRC is trading that mineral to earn a living. Perhaps this earning can be used to better the country. Or may be not if the country is marred with corruption. Anyhow, the Chinese do not care because the Chinese do not meddle with another country's internal affair.
And why is it always about China wanting to control the world? This actually tells me a lot more about how Harris thinks rather than how China thinks. China, like any sensible country, only cares about improving their economy by strengthening their supply chains. How do you even spin that to China wanting to take over the world by being the gatekeeper to a highly valuable resource.
As you should already know, Johnny is one of the "influencer" for the west's agenda... If one day the west decided that China is good, then Johnny will make video about it.
Not only is your point valid there are bots of him on the comments
When its China its called exploiting , when its the US ..they are just making democracy xD
I like the cut of ur jib
It's double hypocrit western people thinking. They usually justify EVERYTHING they do, and when other countries do the same thing they did before, then all the sudden it is nothing but bad. lol
Clean energy doesn't mean a clean and better way of doing it. If other to have everything about clean, you need "clean" people to do it. This cycle or loop will continue as long as we don't become clean morally and mentally.
Congo does not have 70% of worlds cobalt, it has little more than 50%. It produces 70% as of right now, that's true. But it's a big difference
Thank you Cleo for pointing out that switching cars for electric cars is not the solution, and that reducing our reliance on all cars is one.
Land-use and zoning has such a huge, and overlooked, impact on emissions.
Totally agree on this. The issue of public transit has more layers than it seems. The density and the efficiency of infrastructure depends on the zoning. In the US, the zoning laws are so strict that if a zone is for residential only - it's only for single-family zoning; as in a detached house with possibly some yard. It's called Euclidean zoning and is very common in the US. This is inefficient use of land. For public transit to be efficient, there has to be a certain density to an area. You can't run a bus/train line servicing only hundreds of people for hundreds of miles. With strict zoning, you end up with sprawls of suburbs where the only way to get around - even to just buy coffee, is to drive.
If zoning is relaxed, you can have multi-level housing buildings with shops and establishments. Everything you need to live for your everyday life is within walking distance - no need for cars. The concept of a "corner store" is very alien to many suburban Americans. With this increase in density comes better a more efficient public infrastructure. People can still own cars and live in single-family houses if they want but people should have choices to also live in dense areas. They should not be forced to ONLY live in single-family houses.
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You can never expect a fair representation of something that’s been politicized, it’s sad really.
Or once participants of a discussion get passionate about their beliefs the scientific inquiry ends.
he became a propaganda source
Johnny Harris is just a propaganda outlet and a successful one
What do u mean
yes that's really sad
My issue is that the new agenda will be "you will NOT own a car" as it will be deemed "necessary" for "a cleaner future". I will NOT give up on MY RIGHT to own a car. Another reason this whole thing is stupid is because the main problem is that for ALL these "solutions" oil is STILL required! Instead of trying to find ways to subsidize oil for the next 3000-4000 years we fool ourselves with "less CO2" not knowing that this is one of our lesser problems.
Bro literally ignored smartphones getting huge at the same time
A wise man once said:
"EVs aren't here to save the environment, they're here to save the car industry."
agreed
"do not bought EVs for save our world"
People have problem with EV as if there is unlimited Oil in world . Oil would get expensive as years pass and only middle eastern princes would make money of it.
It's gonna kill many legacy OEMs. They 🐥 figure out how to transit to EVs
YES SO ACCURATE
Johnny tbh if it wasn't China controlling it, it'd have been the west. So yeah the problem is that we see electric cars as the "cleaner future" option when we should've invested in affordable & accessible public transport for all. US could've easily been a leader in that if they didn't keep spending like almost $1 trillion/year on the industrial military complex. Since we're talking about big powers taking over & exploiting poorer less powerful countries, maybe you should do a video on Bolivia & the coup done against Evo Morales by the US to make sure the US secures the lithium reserves there. Sounds a fair & balanced view if you show how all big powers play this dirty game
Great point
The irony thing is many of chinese arent are not using cobalt and nickle in their battery because they use LPF battery. So chinese ev are actually more envirentment friendly than the western EV
"then the west would" complete BS.
the west is not trying to buy african land, give them enormous loans they cant pay back, stealing their mines and resources.
Hey Johnny, hi, I’ve been watching a lot of your videos recently and I really like the channel, this video just popped up and I decided to watch it and I like that you talked about electric cars because not many people are talking about the behind the scenes. And I know it’s not really your thing, but I would really enjoy a more in-depth look on how electric cars are being made and what it’s doing to the environment because I have read a lot about it and I just don’t think people really know what all goes into it, and what it does to the planet and what kind of scars it leaves, and yes, it does not put emissions into the air, but no one is talking about the fact that you’re scoring the surface of the Earth, forever and creating dust that does get into the air, especially at the lithium mines, and also the disposal of these batteries when they are all used up is talks to find the ground that they are being Disposed of. I love the way that you really dive into research and go out it with everything you have and it seems like being at your job. You have a lot of time to fully investigate some thing and I just wish you would make a video more in depth on the subject, and also talking and questioning more people that might not be as biased
"Tesla car battery 'spontaneously' catches fire on California freeway, requiring 6,000 gallons of water to put it out. Tesla fire takes over two hours, 20,000 gallons of water to extinguish after Wakefield crash, police say. What Batteries Are Tesla Using In Its Electric Cars? Forging temperature." (Was too lazy to come up with a quote myself)
I work closely with the automotive industry and they absolutely hate it when you bring up the question “isn’t all this another limited resource we have to dig up?” For awhile I was hoping we would go hydrogen in our cars, but that process isn’t too pretty either after some research.
Amazing work and great points as always 🤟🏼
Cobalt usage is being aggressively phased out and has been for years.
Toyota has not given up on hydrogen AFAIK. I would definitely keep an eye on that one.
@@Ferruccio001 Don't.
It's a pipedream of the gas (station) industry and extremely unlikely to ever become a viable alternative in private vehicles.
The only thing better than Battery EVs is public transport, and that will stay so for a very long time, if not forever.
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I knew that EV batteries had a dark side to them that is so greenwashed most people don't know about it. I'm too poor at this point to be able to afford a new vehicle and EV is out of the question for me right now. The bright side is that innovation, technology and research in this is always being driven forward so its entirely possible that we could come up with cheaper simple solutions. The down side of it is that capitalism isn't driven by the humanity of these problems is driven by marginalized cost vs profits.
In this case same as western countries during industrial era, exploiting oil, coal, and other fossil fuel minerals. But no one talking about it.
People are talking about it.
everyone is talking about it constantly
There is no mention of where the electricity comes from. It isn't gas vs minerals, it's gas vs minerals and power generation. Power generation is mostly fossil fuels. So now we have CO2 and strip mining.
This is exactly why I and pretty much my entire friend circle think, that the EU's decision to rule out any other methods other than electrification for cars is absolutely stupid. Not only are we having to exploit and waste ressources, we're also polluting in other ways. There's also the fact, that it's not really clean until your electricity source is clean too. And that's not to mention how absolutely massive the needed infrastructure is, to get even half the population to drive electric. It simply doesn't make sense and isn't even feasible long term...
Instead we could focus on improving the Internal Combustion design to run clean on more abundant and readily available ressources like hydrogen or create a new solution entirely (maybe even consider nuclear energy due to it's insane efficiency and it not being as bad as people think).
But no, instead we are focussing on a technology, that doesn't take too much thinking to realise just how unrealistic it is to chase. Maybe if we focussed on improving public transport to the Swiss standard (I live there, I can confirm it's great), so it's not only usable and clean, but also in a lot of cases a better option than driving. It's also cheaper if you use it regularly and get a subscription, so there's a natural incentive for people to switch and it shows...
But at the same time I also hope we don't just completely give up on roads, given the amount of culture, that exists behind cars and motorcycles. In fact, if most people used public teansport, it would be an amazing experience even for those who drive for enjoyment, because there's less traffic and therefore roads also become safer. It's a win win really.
Please forgive my lack of education, but what is the Swiss Standard for public transport?
As others have mentioned as well, although the situation in the Congolese mines is awful, having them under American corporate or another nation's control wouldn't result in anything better.
Hell we cant even get coffee, bananas or chocolate to be harvested in a humane manner or get our clothes to be made outside of sweat factories. How do you expect Corporations to keep children out of the mines in Africa? Definitely a problem that needs to be solved (for all these areas) but to badmouth china because of it is kinda... weird? hypocritical? whatever.
As an African American, I have to agree with this. China is not moving military or coups (as of now) to get these mines up and running. The corruption runs deep in Africa. Tribalism runs DEEP in Africa. It just the right set up for influencing. I am not a China shill but how much longer can we keep blaming other countries for the wrong doing of the leaders of these African countries (my dad is from one of them)? Its the one thing I hate because it NEVER solves the main problem. If Africans want to stop these situation, theyll have to shed blood of their own... again.....
Hypocritical yes,but don't do what aboutism,China and US are both very bad actors with no concern for human rights
His point from what I understand is kind of that it's just a repeat (if you couldn't tell from the flashbacks of previous exploitations of DRC by Western powers). It's not to target China because it's China, he's targeting China because of their actions.
And it's not like Harris is a USA simp/China hater, he bashes on US all the time.
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What struck me is: the relative amount of mines owned by all parties, instead only stating the Chinese owned ones.
We need more perspective.
Great point… he is going a-wall because cobalt is not dominate by American and western as most minerals of the world. He just need stir up hype around a main topic ‘China’ and something that China is the forefront at.
@@phillipthach7924 US companies ARE the US government. Especially when they spend millions lobbying for policies and they have deep ties with politicians. There's no distinction between the two.
@@NecroPyroLion I disagree here. US companies stongly influence politics, but they are still regulated and have constraints. The CCP makes the laws for themselves, so they can do literally anything they want to at any time with no resistance. US companies at least have to put up a fight to get laws changed in their favor.
Harris is just another Western propagandists at work..
@@phillipthach7924 I don't see the difference if owned by government or not. In my country we have mines owned by Canada private companies and the canadians and their government enjoy all the benefits of it while the "Private company" destroy and contaminate around the world and Canada keep their "green" image.
On top of that, as someone already, mentioned, those "Private" companies bribe ("lobby") those governments. I mean, even Elon Musk called for a coup in Bolivia. You would say that he was just "joking", but there is truth in all jokes, a desire, a thought. Watch the video about how many "private" citizens got rich with Afghanistan war.
China is blunt in their needs. The West engage in mental gymnastics so they can portray one thing while the "private" companies do their fishy business.
You missed the most important point. EV companies are changing the chemistry in their batteries and use of cobalt is being ramped down.
Is it correct though (I read it from somewhere) that although China is the main foreign investor in DRC’s cobalt industry but actually most of the cobalt mining in the DRC are small miners?
It could be another optimistic view, if correct
Cobalt is NOT needed for EVs. Half of all new Teslas sold currently use an LFP chemistry with zero cobalt.
Oh wow. Never knew
I considered unsubscribing after the Russia video where he made a bunch of factual errors. After watching this one for a few minutes I hit unsubscribe. This guy is pushing some weird agenda. Literally all major lithium ions battery consumers and manufacturers have committed to wiping cobalt out and as far as I can tell he's completely ignored that to push out this piece of disinformation.
@@africa_explained_tv This man's videos are less factual and more propaganda now
@@evanchen703 I agree. I'm not even subscribed but his videos keep coming on my feed.
This comment should be higher up. Maybe there were a bunch of problems with cobalt mining, but honestly why even bother getting into it when the whole industry is going to be side stepped anyway.
A lot of the focus on cobalt in EV’s ignores that we already use cobalt for gasoline processing. EV technology is advancing to reduce dependence on cobalt and to recycle cobalt in batteries. Meanwhile the mature tech of gasoline development has decided that cobalt is the way to go with gas processing. Anyone who is truly concerned about cobalt use should promote EV’s over ICE.
wey usa don't use car but use train , trolly bus and bicyicel . like in europe.
@Hello Everyone Not at all, since gas will _always_ use cobalt and then its gone,. While batteries don't always and can be recycled. Also theres more cobalt in your phone than an EV, so go back to land lines?
Wow, I didn't know that, looked it up confirmed - "cobalt is also used in the refinement of crude oil, which is used to make petrol". Gas pollutes on production and consumption and is subsidized by federal government.
but it's used catalyzer - recycled endlessly
Swiss conglomerate Glencore is also investing heavily there and violates many things, including environmental regulations and child labor laws. Why did you forget Glencore?
Since this video was posted back in late April 2022, everyone is racing to open rare Earth mines that are *NOT* in China. There are likely several promising candidates for such mines in North and South America, for starters.
Cleo is correct. While the amount on earth IS finite, well the air on earth we breathe is technically finite too... It's just we have a carbon cycle. Aluminum is also finite, but in the 1700s after the process to isolate aluminum was discovered it became dirt cheap and is also infinitely recyclable as are most other metals.
Edit: changed "The Woman is right though" to "Cleo is correct"
But the same isnt applicable to Lithium, etc, so that argument is completely useless.
I love how you added a "women" & "though" there lol just an interesting observation. Also yes majority of oxygen comes from phytoplankton in the oceans which is also being destroyed so yeah ✨progress✨
Pretty sure she has a name
@@obviousgorilla124 Wow! Chinese troll are here already...
Do you know what the rates are for ALU recycling?
Over 60% world wide now.
We have aluminium we are using today thats hundreds of years old now.
Honestly it baffles me that we are trying to make cars greener instead of reducing the amount of cars in the world. In my hometown public transportation is highly ineficient, and the city is designed for cars, yet it's just the 30% of people who use them. It's a class issue as well as an environmental one.
cars represent freedom of movement for the individual. Public transport relies on schedules and preplanned routes. discouraging this freedom is a step backward in societal development imo
@@Thedarkknight2244 this is just fundamental misunderstanding of freedom by americans. Forcing you to drive isn't freedom. You can't call something that you need to live a freedom. Dense-ish walkable cyclable cities with public transport are the only way to sustainably have cities work.
Cars are inefficient (space) are expensive to produce, require infrastructure that without density higher than throughput doesn't pay for itself (suburbs are literally creation of devil - a ponzi scheme)
It baffles you? The answer is pretty simple, bad urban design choices from decades ago require us to either spend trillions redesigning all of our cities or billions on BEVs and letting market forces create momentum.
Not that we shouldn’t address urban sprawl but it’s not a problem that can be fixed overnight or even in a few decades.
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> and letting market forces create momentum.
You realize that its cars and suburbs that have been subsidized specifically to create worse cities for humans?
@@Thedarkknight2244 the only reason why cars represent freedom of movement in America is because that’s what it was built for. Entire neighbourhoods were demolished for highways, parking is heavily subsidized, and there are so many negative externalities associated with it. Car lobbies pushed for billions invested in highways and disinvestment of public transit.
If public transportation was good and extensive, you never have to check a schedule and you can go wherever you want to go-and this is common in many cities in the world. If anything, cars represent a burden. You pay for something that’s depreciating in value, you have to pay gas and insurance, and you always have to store it somewhere, which requires endless concrete in precious space in cities. Cars in America actually reduce class mobility because lower income people in some areas need a car to get to work, and money spent on their car is money that could be spent on food, necessities and housing.
So, mining Cobalt is bad and evil, but mining everything else is okay?
Hey Johhny, do you have any good sources? For a school project on cobalt
Cleo basically took the words out of my mouth. No one ever said the green future would be perfect. We’re just trying to keep getting better over time
Did you know that electric cars were designed over 100 years ago? Look it up. Greed is the only thing holding us back.
@@MrSupernova111 did you know that typing words on a computer can be used to post comments on RUclips?
@@TheWefikus hahahah nice one
Actually many people have used green energy hyperbolically in that if we don’t shift the planter is doomed. We have politicians stating the workd will be a point of no return in 12 years. So, actually the narrative has actually struggle with many saying green energy is solution at all cost.
What Johnny is highlighting is that there is a cost to green energy and for us to be aware of it. That’s why he called it the “dark side” which implies there is a good /light side to the coin.
Unfortunately, time is not an infinite resource. Human population and consumption continue to grow at exponential rates, so modest improvement is not going to be good enough to make a sustainable future - the only real reason to discuss green sources of energy.
Wait a minute, is that means China had developing cobalt for over 20 years and recently you found that’s not all right?
Since now more money is involved, and his feelings are hurt cuz knowing we might get LESS profit than China on this "mine". 🤔🤦♂️🤦
My question is why if China has it it's the "dark side" of EV?
@@questworldmatrix Because they don't care about labor conditions and environmental impact of how foreign sources minerals operate. The five eyes nations could get Cobalt from Australia but we lack the work force capacity and the high cost of conforming to basic regulations. Australia is already the 3rd largest nation supplier of Cobalt and by wide lead the biggest supplier of Hard Rock Dry Lithium. These are possible because the easiest Cobalt is being mined and the more expensive high grade lithium is being sold. Operational Difficulty and Price Cost is the problem when it comes to places that do not operate like China.
@@Neojhun yeah, as if the Blood Diamonds were owned by the Chinese.
@@a1184079 WTF we're talking about ores for industrial chemicals. In this case Batteries. Which the Chinese have deep investments in.
They don't seem to mention to fact that even RECYCLYING batteries uses a large amount of energy and creates it's own byproduct of pollution...
Tesla is already using cobalt-free LFP batteries in half of its new cars produced!!
When you set the narrative of “stealing”, it is inevitably biased. Can’t imagine a former student of IR would talk negotiations between countries like that…
@@grapesurgeon An agreement? I don't see the Chinese walking in with guns and tanks into the Congo forcing the government at gunpoint to hand over the mines.
stealing is the word he used for Belgium or the white people countries..
That left a bad taste in my mouth too and it turns out that this 'journalist' was heavily critiqued a while ago about an unrelated story with regards to a conflict of interest that he conveniently did not disclose until it blew up in front of him. Overall, this topic is interesting to think and talk about (especially when you realize that there are people who think they are saving the planet by driving an electric car) but I'd still take everything this guy says with a grain of salt.
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@@generalgiovannicresvaresur2771 same, these people are totally biased and this kind of "journalism" is toxic.
Battery chemistry is changing all the time. Most batteries of the future will not use cobalt. Most (at this stage) will be lithium-iron (LFP) batteries.
The other thing to remember is that batteries are now 93-95% recyclable which means that once it's out of the ground, all of these minerals will be cycling through the industry without the need for further mining.
What no one seems to be talking about as well is copper. We are right on the cusp of hitting a wall where we need to mine copper to have any (for the first time since the bronze age). Before this there has been copper cycling through industry that meant only a fraction needed to mined to keep up with supply. Luckily there are some technologies becoming available that will allow copper extraction from clay, but even with this copper will become a limiting resource and EVERYTHING electrical requires copper to manufacture, especially electric cars and renewable energy.
I didn’t know about extracting copper from clay, but isn’t clay also finite?
Battery chemistry is changing/evolving but very slowly, also cobalt is needed for very dense and high density batteries for heavy duty applications….. there are millions of oil byproducts and batteries won’t compete to replace those.
@@dynamic283 Technically yes but for human purposes it should be more than enough. Besides that we are possibly only a decade away from mining the Moon as well as asteroids in near-Earth orbit at which time ALL mineral commodities will be abundant. This is why I steer well clear of investing in gold, silver or platinum. There are massive asteroids out there currently being tracked that are made almost entirely of these metals and thanks to SpaceX we will soon be able to both mine them and land them safely on Earth cheaply. As they are in space with nothing to react with, very little refining will be necessary either.
@@alaricgoldkuhl155 You should watch the movie "Don't Look Up."
@@alaricgoldkuhl155 You are hilarious! How did you come with that 10y estimate for Moon/Asteroid mining?
Johny Harris: lemme show you a map
The whole RUclipsr community: 'gun click'
Forget cobalt. The price of cobalt has come way down and many new lithium batteries are cobalt free.
Quote "Chinese EV battery manufacturer SVOLT unveiled what it claims to be the world’s first cobalt-free battery. The company has been selling cobalt-free battery cells since February 2021. "
Calling public transport"not pretty" or whatever is such an US POV. People need to learn to love Busses, trains and bicycles
True mate but that is large cultural shift. I take public transportation and ride my bike and ebike. I live in a car dominated city and most here see public transport as a poor person's solution. Do folks really like each other here, or are comfortable with each other? Not really. It would be a massive shift.
Agreed, more public transportation please
*THIS* . People need to understand this and push for a change. I highly recommend these digestible videos:
_The "War on Cars" feat. PragerU_ , by Adam Something
_SUPERBLOCKS - The Future Of City Planning_ , by Adam Something
_The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry_ , by Climate Town
having sexiness and prettiness as important considerations in tackling climate change is such a first world thing
@@bobsingh7949 so public transportation when done
Right is great, a good example is with large college campuses. That being said I generally don’t like dealing with normal people and the truely public transport that is available in most places in the US sucks. There are limited routes. With long times in between for busses to come. It’s just a mess.
The title is misleading. Tesla, Samsung and Panasonic are already moving away to cobalt-free batteries. Model 3 & Y with LFP batteries are already cobalt-free. A much more in-depth research video here: ruclips.net/video/DFL8iQ3p3cI/видео.html
BYD also the developing it's blade battery from their LFP battery
Funny enough it’s basically China who is making LFP’s. All western car factories use cobalt, with the highest percentage in hybrides. Basically the bigger the battery the less cobalt you need. It’s not a storage problem but an charge and discharge problem (so amount of horsepower out of the battery).
You are trusting a News Channel
L + Ratio + News Channel Sheep
@@Deveonn west doesn't want to get their hands dirty...
There's an old saying:
*As long as you don't see it, it's clean.*
Hey guys. Fantastic video. I think you make some great points. What do you think of sustainability? Can we really live without oil or oil products?
I am no fan of China but what this video will be about if it's one of those Western countries monopolizing these mines? What difference does it make? China extraction isn't green while a western extraction is green? I just don't get the point why China has to be brought into the topic in first part.
"Personal agenda" ... USA has been doing the exact same thing for centuries look at what they did in Afghanistan and he never made a video about it ... yeah but sure super power china tho 🤦🏾🤦🏾
Spot on, China just happen to got there in the first place. At least they didn't invade the place like some others who did for oil.
I thought the same too, but I think because China cares a lot about green energy (it's part of every 5-year plan these past few years), that's why it's under the spotlight and under a lot of scrutiny. But we also need to shed light on how Western countries exploited Africa way more than any other part of the world.
I was thinking the same, I don't care if China is there, they could have even more mines. But I also get his point, it really threw me off when he said that there's child labour and a lot of exploitation, even though if there wasn't any of that they would still make a huge profit, so why practise such things in this age where they are looked down as barbaric? So I do agree with Johnny here, that China should stop exploiting Kongo's population, and they should stop exploiting their own population as well, and start fighting child and cheap labour.
A part of this video was Johhny being a "Bad cop", Cloe being a "Good cop".
At least that is my interpretation & it makes sense if it was meant to be so.
Wow looks like China learned one from the playbook. I feel like this is the same for China in the semi-conductor industry where US basically dominates in (including ASML & TSMC)
Best comment here, China isn't uniquely evil for exploiting 3rd world resources. They just got there before the west did this time.
Anyways there are plenty of companies who have already predicted the rise of cobalt prices and are working on reducing/eliminating the need for cobalt in batteries
I have a question : we know china was first becoming a ev country, that's why they started grabbing cobalt early, but why is it that chinese car are the one that's exploding and catching on fire and all that. and it seems like only ev in china has that problem? if like you said, cobalt making battery better, why is it that only chinese ev are catching on fire then? shouldn't it be other way around, making chinese ev saftest with their battery?
We are lucky that not all the batteries requires cobalt. I work in the li-ion battery industry and in the next future, most cars will use iron and phosphorous (LFP).
Here is a bit on lithium-ion battery chemistry that most people do not seem to understand very well:
All modern rechargeable lithium batteries are lithium-ion batteries, this refers to the fact that it is the lithium ions (negatively charged atoms of lithium) move from the negative side to the positive side through an electrolyte. The battery technology like Lithium Iron Phosphate (PFP), refers to the cathothe (positive) side of the battery.
The current technologies are as follows:
Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC, EVs, tools, grid storage, good specific energy and power density)
Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide (NCA, EVs, very good specific energy and lifespan, these are the most dangerous ones)
Lithium Manganese Oxide (hybrid EVs, consumer devices)
Lithium Iron Phosphate (EVs, tools, these are the safest ones)
Lithium Cobalt Oxide (one of the early lithium ion chemistries used by Sony).
Of theses, NCA and LFP are the two Tesla uses and seem to be the two that get the most press coverage. NCA is the better cell chemistry but they are more dangerous and expensive. LFP is much cheaper but not as energy or power dense. When people are talking about the price of Cobalt or Nickel and how it affects batteries, they are usually referring to NCA or NMC cells. The most important element remains lithium, as currently there are no good batteries being produced at any sort of scale that do not use lithium, but plenty of options using other materials. LFP is very promising as a cheap battery, since it is just Iron and phosphorus in addition to lithium.
As a side note, the anode (negative side) is typically made of graphite, but there are other materials. Solid state batteries seem to be on the horizon, but do not underestimate the difficulty of mass production. Lithium ion batteries date back to the 1960s and where first in mass production and being sold by Sony in 1991. There is a lot more research into batteries nowadays, but going from a few dozen made in a lab to a few dozen a second is extremely challenging. As a further sidenote, lithium-polymer batteries are lithium-ion batteries, but the electrolyte is a solid polymer sheet. They do not differ too much from cylindrical lithium-ion cells and the arguably more accurate name for them would be lithium-ion pouch cell. Prismatic cells also exist, though they aren't very widespread.
If you would like to read more, the Wikipedia page on Lithium-ion batteries is a good start.
Thanks.
Very detailed and good explanation
I feel like this is worth pinning
Lithium Iron Phosphate aka LFP aka LiFePO4. Never seen PFP used before, guessing first P is for prismatic.
As the chemical make up describes it has ZERO Cobalt. But it has the draw back compromise of low energy density.
This may not be the cell chemistry that is used in the future. But it shows how Cell chemistry can vary wildly and what minerals are required can drastically change.
What we need is to scale up and seek out the most ethical to source cell chemistry. This is very doable as foundational concept of Galvanic Cells is vast array of different chemical combination.
Maybe other than Wikipedia is BatteryUniversity.com , maybe a little old and outdated. But the deep dive foundational knowledge is absurdly good for the price of Free.
This video seems to focus only on cobalt, which can be 'addressed' but there are also broader issues with other minerals. The latest NMC batteries today (like NMC811 and NCA) use 80-90% less cobalt as the earlier NMC111, however they use more nickel (which has its own issues, with supply concentrated in Russia and Indonesia with a lot of processing done by China). As the above poster notes, LFP does not need any cobalt, but of course because of a lack of valuable minerals, they are unlikely to be economically recyclable when they reach their end of life.
I'm kind of worried about the focus on China when America's role in these problems is overlooked or minimized
@@noeswantra2295 He criticizes the entire China. But while criticizing america he focuses on the companies and how the companies manipulate US Govt which is dumb af when it comes to spending money.
Because China has active cc
@@shashankgadamsetty508 nope, he only criticize Chinese government, which is not the same as the Chinese people. So more or less similar to how he criticize American companies
@@noeswantra2295 while ignoring the American government assisting corporations exploiting the countries they extract wealth from. When talking about China it’s the governments fault when it’s America it’s the corporations not the government. A little concerning narrative
@@noeswantra2295 criticize Chinese government, which is not the same as the Chinese people." this is the most asinine excuse ever, like gov mandates every aspect of all that,you know nothing of the decentralization in china internally
One of the many great things about Cleo Abrams is that she is able to explain concisely without using the word "like" 10 times a minute.
She's also hot 😂
Are the car batteries recyclable? in what % ?
I really dig the duality of Johnny getting to the dark, seedy underbelly of the truth, but then Cleo to balance out that ugly reality with optimism.
Moar collabs, please!
Lmfao
That's what everything is. Even in school, when you write essays, they want you to say, "This is why X is a strong argument. But this is why Y is compelling too. Ultimately, the answer is very difficult to pin down, and it is probably Z, a combination of some parts of X and some parts of Y." If you listen to any liberal podcast like the daily, they do the same thing ---x seems like the answer. But they give evidence for Y. And they end the show with uncertainty and by saying it's probably Z.
I hate that fucking template. I like people with wild opinions that are gutsy and can be proven wrong.
The "it's probably a combination of X and y" crap can't really be proven wrong.
Unfortunately there's no optimism in child labour. This won't stop or change.
@@yukinasaeki906 OMG!!! YOUR A GRIL!!!
Truth? Please... this dude is practically a CNN vlog warrior 😂😂
Johnny, your research is well-backed up and intriguingly done as always, but the way you approach this topic is giving more anti-China sentiment than concern (and honestly ire) over how Congo has been exploited for decades and conditioned towards political instability for the benefit of (mostly) the West. It seems like the only reason why people now suddenly care about Congo (and maybe even why you made this video) is because in this case, China, and not the West, is the beneficiary.
Bingo
I’m congolese, and I can say you nailed it
It seems like the West got chest pains for China's jackpot 😂
EXACTLY
He's Amercian, what did you expect?
No journalism in this world is truly done without a hint of bias and prejudice.
beyond lithium iron battery, there's other potential technology like sodium ion batteries. Then there's grid scale energy storage that doesn't need to rely on LiON batteries. There are startups focusing on grid energy storage that uses chemistries that don't rely on rare minerals.
Two more optimistic takes
1- the extraction of these minerals doesn’t always have to be as exploitative as it is. For example, Chile in the Andes mtn region, which is home to the world largest supply of Lithium, has decided to nationalize the resource. A nation deciding the future of a resource is a lot different than share holders.
2- yes these materials can be used in car, but we shouldn’t assume that means all gas cars will be replaced with electric cars. Actually, I think e-bikes will become the dominant mode of transportation for most of the world, and it uses a lot less resources than electric cars/cars in general (smaller battery, smaller solar panels needed to charge it). But yes, also more cities will use public transport instead of cars too.
Well, I would not say China is a communist country; in fact, it is a socialist country with some "Chinese characteristics". However, China is literally a state-owned capitalistic country. Although the CCP stands for the Chinese Communist Party, China is definitely NOT a communist country. Also, using the word "steal" is extremely unprofessional and rude. No one steals anything. There's always a price in exchange for products. China just saw the opportunity and took action early, PERIOD. America always judged everything China did just so wrong and evil. Not everything has to be politically related. As the greatest country on earth, how about America helping Africa to build some infrastructure and lend them money as well? Stop blaming everything on China lol
YES THATS WHAT I WAS SAYING
@@didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 nah we dont
Johny needs to pay his heating bills, the layer of clothes is getting denser every video 😃
why waste energy? we are talking about greener environment, right?
Although your comment is a joke and I laughed I’m constantly arguing with my wife about not wasting energy and money when layers of clothes are there and cheap.
@@shasmi93 It's a problem but you always have to see a bright side.
Tbh, what they talked about in the video is just the surface. Everything is ruled by money for "the money". Having said that, saving every little bit is huge - like not leaving your pc/ energy devices on over night, turning off unnecessary lights, using firewood for heating, etc. Making those cheap clothes come with a pollution problem in itself.
counterpoint: Using less HVAC energy is nicer for the planet!
@@MrSmitheroons heat pumps?
I feel like the only thing they left out of this video is where electricity usually comes from. Yes, it _can_ come from wind and solar but most of the time its coming from coal and fossil fuels. In a more *green* future you would think there would be more nuclear power talk.
Have you looked at the destruction of the of the mountains and land in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia where most of our lithium comes from? Vast regions in these countried have been turned into poisonous pits and toxic lakes that will never be safe for anyone or anything.
That's why we are moving away from Cobalt entirely. Every battery we use on my channel does not use cobalt at all, which is LiFePO4 and LTO. Cobalt based chemistries are also dangerous to use. And it's expensive, every EV maker is moving away from it as well.
The minerals used in LiFePO4 can be extracted from multiple places in the world. And recycling this chemistry is much easier than the others. And the degradation rate is much lower as well.
I currently use non cobalt based batteries and solar to charge my ev without the grid. Zero coal or foreign oil used to fill up my car. If you charge Offgrid and have a Tesla with lifepo4, all of these arguments instanly disappear.
China is taking notes
But, you still need to mine all the stuff. If we move away from cobalt, its gonna be something else. And, i would say its prolly coming from a third world country with modern slavery.
The Chinese were manufacturing almost 100 percent of those batteries in 2021. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Rightly Said!
@@Kumek01 oh so should we not have steel buildings because we have to mine iron ore? Extracting ore is not hard and we do it everyday. Is this not known by the general populace?
I like Cleo’s perspective. I love the insight your content brings, but being 100% honest with ya, it gets pretty sad and overwhelming after a while. It’s nice that Cleo gave a path forward.
Solar Punk
The Future Requires that we use VERBS today.
Giving up is the lazy route.
We need to forefront hope and problem solving better than our parents did.
@@abramrexjoaquin7513 our parents did fine
Our parents started it now we going to push it to new lengths
The same problems apply to solar and wind. They both use quantities of fairly exotic materials and require large inputs of fossil fuels and generate lots of toxic waste-especially solar. -just no getting away from that.
Hydroelectric is good but limited in availability and creates serious environmental problems. Comes down to trying to sustain the unsustainable
The sixteen largest ships emit the same amount of CO2 as all cars in the world
It's not just China doing that.. Western countries did that for decades before.
China literally bought their cobalt mines from american companies, after the american government had couped congo
If you're sitting at the poker table cheating the other players, the only thing worse than someone calling you out on it is another cheater taking a seat at the table. If only one player breaks the rules, it's advantage, but when many break the rules no one's sure how to play the game anymore
and they are still doing it ! look at france's total energies company exploiting african oil and gas
@@forthexp8649 why you need to complicate your statment ! just say it ! you are against china because they are competing with you in africa ! in other words, china takes and gives but western country and usa takes and but doesn't give, instead, it destroys your country by a proxy war, just like iraq and syria and libya
@@forthexp8649 Don't blame the players. Blame the game
Just curious, what is that worries you more: China controlling resources as opposed as US controlling resources or Congo people being poor whilst sitting in good just as Irak people just as an example?
or maybe they’re both bad and we can hold both accountable or?
@@NKanchevful impossible, majority of people on this planet will view everything as black and white and pick a side and blame the other one.
He is mad that a non-white country will dominate this industry rather than Americans
@@NKanchevful and what u gonna do? not use resources?
@@zhengyiyue9223 which ones?
Great video! Wish cleo was louder. Dem audio levels yo 🔉
Also want to say, if it's ok, some feedback / a request about the soundtrack ~ Your research and content are impressive and your voice is really good for narrating etc too - but PLEASE go easy on the music, it's very distracting & intrusive (to me, anyway) and aggravating in places eg that tinkly repetitive sequence loop that seemed to come out of a different part of the laptop - I ended up turning the volume down and having to rely on reading the subtitles, which is rather tedious and inclines me not to bother, especially when there's sooo much to watch when attempting to be informed about the many areas and details of 'the bigger picture', but I wanted to hear to the end as I feel your information is reliable and valuable.. if a little long-winded eg the McDonad's ice cream machine episode. But regardless, a Huge THANK YOU for all your efforts and skillful courageous research & videos :))