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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2022
  • ABC News’ Ginger Zee has an exclusive tour of what will be the first operating Cobalt mine in the U.S. in decades, and the minerals mined there could be key to America's all electric future.
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Комментарии • 89

  • @jessefontenot9846
    @jessefontenot9846 Год назад +47

    Never underestimate how soulless corporate media is.

    • @DuckmanYaHeard
      @DuckmanYaHeard Год назад +1

      Did you vote for Biden and Democrats though?

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci Год назад +1

      Yyyup

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci Год назад +1

      @@DuckmanYaHeard you're gross

    • @whirledpeas1182
      @whirledpeas1182 Год назад +5

      @@DuckmanYaHeard imagine thinking that it matter who the president is.
      That's like saying pringles would taste better If the label looked different

    • @KawaiiLuckyGirl
      @KawaiiLuckyGirl 2 месяца назад +1

      @@whirledpeas1182 they dont make em with common sense like you anymore.

  • @thebeldam5823
    @thebeldam5823 Год назад +56

    Oh boy.. if only people really knew the truth about cobalt mining😬

    • @Horton13
      @Horton13 Год назад +8

      I guess they don’t care so much about Africa anymore

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад

      It's a shame they have to use so much cobalt for refining petrol & diesel, and for stainless steel production.

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 Год назад +4

      @@guringai Yeah its a shame that Fuel processing uses 7% of the annual cobalt demand and Batteries use 41%

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад

      @@thebeldam5823At least it can be recycled.
      It's a real shame that petrol & diesel can't be used more than once.

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 Год назад +2

      @@guringai 🤦‍♂️

  • @stonehalo1632
    @stonehalo1632 Год назад +10

    Meanwhile I use a phone built with minerals mined by kids in the congo to comment about the kids in the congo mining the minerals for the phone I'm using... huh circle of life lol

  • @forestfishburne7900
    @forestfishburne7900 Год назад +12

    Search cobalt mine and find out where your cobalt is really coming from.

  • @feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135
    @feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135 Год назад +12

    Who cares about clean if the purpose of clean is to protect people, and it hurts people.

  • @crewmax4240
    @crewmax4240 Год назад +5

    Congo anyone?

  • @Lawlzinator
    @Lawlzinator Год назад +8

    If you want your little electric cars, you’re gonna have to do mining and chemical processing. it’s hardly green and not good for the planet

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 Год назад +2

      So tell me how clean oil drilling is. And nothing nastier than an oil refinery.

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад

      EVs are just less bad than fuel cars

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад +2

      Extracting oil, refining it, shipping it burning it while you pay tyrants....how does that compare?
      Our car is charged from rooftop solar - literally sunlight. & The battery can be recycled,

  • @arthurcronk7103
    @arthurcronk7103 Год назад +2

    The tone is so happy! Now watch how it’s mined in Congo! Go green!

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 10 дней назад +1

    AND HOW MUCH WATER IS NEEDED IN MINING COBALT AND HOW POLLUTING IS COBALT MINING ?...

  • @YourMom-vl2sp
    @YourMom-vl2sp Год назад +10

    They say that it is clean energy 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 Год назад

      Nothing dirtier than an oil refinery.

    • @wakeupworkout7781
      @wakeupworkout7781 23 дня назад

      @@easymoney8535 they literally just said the cobalt mine is on the list of most polluted places in the country. any oil refineries on that list? no? and you want to virtual signal about your dirty EV?

  • @jdubs604
    @jdubs604 Год назад +2

    So renewable energy isn’t so renewable when it uses finite materials.

  • @MatthewM575
    @MatthewM575 Год назад +8

    Half of the worlds Cobalt comes from Africa most from the Congo. Dug by hand from slaves and people making slave wages.

    • @MatthewM575
      @MatthewM575 Год назад

      @@sebcharb7313 🤣🤣🤣 You know absolutely nothing. Its really not hard to prove everything I said. It would take you like 10 minutes. Unfortunately you are probably to lazy to look or just don't want to believe the truth. You probably own a Tesla also 🤣🤣🤣

  • @richardwilliams3839
    @richardwilliams3839 Год назад +3

    Are you that serious about global warming modern day slavery and other important issues

  • @eazypeazy33
    @eazypeazy33 Год назад +1

    By making sure there are less feet to make prints …

  • @jordanjackman1537
    @jordanjackman1537 Год назад +1

    2 seconds worth of time for the poor Congolese children

  • @jamies4861
    @jamies4861 Год назад +1

    Just don't be breathing any dust of the Cobalt

  • @goatrockhunters8000
    @goatrockhunters8000 Год назад +5

    Propaganda!!!

    • @ablcuyler2329
      @ablcuyler2329 Год назад

      It's not propaganda but they should help the children in dr congo he are enslaved to mine cobalt

  • @MrJohhnycongo
    @MrJohhnycongo 3 месяца назад

    What a marked difference in mining standards compared to the artisanal "conflict mineral" mines in the eastern DR Congo!

  • @thatdude4571
    @thatdude4571 Год назад +3

    It is also child slave labor.

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 10 дней назад +1

    AND HOW DOES THE USA PROFIT FROM THIS MINNG OF COBALT BY ANOTHER NATION FROM OUR NATIONAL FOREST AND IS ONE REASON SOME NATION FORESTS ARE OUT OF REACH FOR USA CITIZENS GATED ROADS ?...

  • @peggygallagher5802
    @peggygallagher5802 Год назад +4

    Idaho is stunningly beautiful! Wouldn't necessarily consider this "clean" energy as it's harming our landscaping and it's mining.

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 Год назад

      Does a forest of oil wells look better?

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 Год назад

      Oh they don't don't mind they love trump...zero regulation red state...
      CA fights for its beauty 😍

    • @tocooh6838
      @tocooh6838 Год назад

      For all you Climate Lovers.
      3/4 of all Cobalt comes from The Democratic Republic of Congo.
      Go watch a real documentary and not US propaganda.
      Thousands of African people are dying for your cobalt while you're watching make-believe.

  • @hannahporter2605
    @hannahporter2605 Год назад +1

    If this ain’t the biggest crock of bullshit. Y’all make it sound so safe and cute. Show people where the other 72% of cobalt is coming from…This is what…? A meager .05% that is needed by the world!?

  • @richardd408
    @richardd408 Год назад +1

    Cobalt Industry infomercial is what this nonsense is.

  • @anything_idc_
    @anything_idc_ Год назад

    Screw this I'm jumping.... .

  • @wakeupworkout7781
    @wakeupworkout7781 23 дня назад

    love the people on here virtual signalling about the environment and caring about miners while typing from their devices built with elements mined by kids in the congo in atrocious conditions.

  • @cocksure8430
    @cocksure8430 Год назад

    Its great that they're causing so little damage..🤣😂🤣

  • @markdlt2989
    @markdlt2989 20 дней назад

    The need for EVs?

  • @tonysmith2045
    @tonysmith2045 Год назад +3

    What will happen in 7 to 10 years when your EV battery needs to be replaced? It takes 500 million tons to make 1 car battery, not to mention mining all the minerals would deplete earth and they won't be replenishing it....

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад

      Far out man, your figures are exaggerated by a factor of about a million.
      Anyway batteries are recycled because it's easier & more economical than mining again.
      Can petrol be recycled?

    • @mariopuzo4509
      @mariopuzo4509 Год назад

      @@guringai bio diesel, yup. When i worked fast food as a kid a guy came through once a week to take our old fryer grease... As fuel. Byproduct? Water.

    • @chuckruckus3648
      @chuckruckus3648 Год назад

      @@guringai lol YOU CAN NOT recycle an EV battery.
      It is actual toxic waste on scale of spent uranium in needs of storage.
      There is NO recycling or these batteries.
      Gas cars over 93% by weight
      EV less than 30% by weight

  • @dittzx7322
    @dittzx7322 Год назад +6

    Shout out to George Floyd on 849 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals!

  • @jeffreyblatman9387
    @jeffreyblatman9387 Год назад

    This is a very poor example of an active cobalt mine!!!!!

  • @user-mi2jj5iw2x
    @user-mi2jj5iw2x Год назад

    Harming landscape does not equate sustainability. #GreensustainabilityisaLie.

  • @billyork8181
    @billyork8181 Год назад +2

    What about the small footprints of children who work 14 hour days to get the amount of money in your sofa. It's all a lie.

    • @guringai
      @guringai Год назад

      Mate gave you seen the environmental & social nightmare of the oil industry in Congo?
      Neither is necessarily worse than the other.

  • @Horton13
    @Horton13 Год назад

    Hypocrites

  • @chrissanders541
    @chrissanders541 Год назад +1

    let me help u guys understand electricity and some options
    a 4000 RPM DC motor from amazon
    hooked to a
    500 amp GM alternator that makes 500 amps at 800 rpm
    will produce a huge amount of power... (tesla's original ac power motor)
    alternator produces enough power to power DC motor and run eclectic and charge compositors/batteries
    making lead batteries ah real option again for power storage..

  • @alysononoahu8702
    @alysononoahu8702 Год назад

    Solar....solar
    ....solar