Environmental Hypocrisy Uncovered!!

 

Fossil fuel’s are far less damaging to the environment than so-called renewables. What the Green movement and the wind and solar lobbyists don't tell us, is where their wind turbines and solar panels and batteries that they use everyday originate from. Why?? Because, it doesn’t fit their pocket-lining agenda.

Batteries use Lithium, lead, zinc and other materials.

Demand for lithium has expanded significantly in recent years as a result of its increasing use in rechargeable batteries for portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones, computers and rechargeable power tools, as well as in batteries and electric motors for electric bikes, hybrid and electric passenger cars, and other vehicles, and for storage for solar panels. 

The major technical application for lithium is for production of ceramics and glasses, including heat-resistant glass and ceramics such as those used in oven wear and cook tops. It is also used in fluxes and glazes. Lithium is also used in alloys to increase strength to weight ratios, taking advantage of lithium’s strength and light weight (low-density) characteristics. Aluminium-lithium alloys, for example, are used in the aerospace and motorsport industries.

Lead and zinc mines are hazardous, as these minerals are a health hazard. Zinc is the 4th most used metal.

Then we have the rare earth metals required in wind turbine manufacture, which is disastrous to the environment:

This is a calamity:

Wind’s ecological trail of destruction extends back to China, which supplies most of the rare earths required in the construction of wind turbines. When we in the West erect a wind turbine, reported an investigative article in the UK’s Daily Mail, we help create “a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China” that, according to locals, withers their crops and kills their animals.

 

Solar, too, is anything but benign. A major 2009 report by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a pro-solar California-based environmental justice non-profit, described the many toxic threats that come of solar, often because the toxic chemicals involved in its manufacture are haphazardously processed in China. 

But problems abound in the U.S., too, where solar companies such as Solyndra and Abound Solar went bankrupt after their subsidies ran out, leaving behind sites abandoned with millions of pounds of toxic waste that taxpayers will somehow have to clean up. Most cash-strapped solar companies, in fact, don’t report the levels of toxic waste they generate to state authorities, as required by law, and they are even tight-lipped about their environmental procedures to their environmental allies.

As one environmentalist told the Daily Mail, “There’s not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment.” That the destruction is mostly unseen and far-flung does not make it any less damaging.

It is interesting to note that all forms of energy production have some environmental impact. However, it is disingenuous for wind and solar lobbyists to hide the impacts of their industry while highlighting the impacts of others. From illegal bird deaths to radioactive waste, wind and solar energy poses serious environmental risks that the lobbyists would prefer you never know about. This makes it easier for them when arguing for more subsidies, tax credits, mandates and government supports.

So, there you have it, renewables are toxic to the environment, maybe more so than fossil fuels, but, nobody seems to care!! 

We often hear the green movement and their allies proclaiming of the dirty big black holes left in the ground from coal mining, but, they never mention about the other dirty big holes left in the ground from other sources of mining, such as lead, zinc, lithium and many others, which are needed for their precious so-called renewables. 

Hypocrisy comes to mind whenever we hear the argument that fossil fuels are environmentally damaging. Yes, fossil fuels do have their downsides, but, so do renewables.

Green worshippers keep suggesting that a "coal mine is uglier than a wind turbine farm" - the Enviro-muppets seem to forget our raw materials come from the ground, and, those same materials need to be mined, then processed to make their fabulous wind turbines.  Be it a coal mine or an iron ore mine - it's still a ruddy big hole! You can't pick and choose!

More information:-

Lithium -       http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/li.htm
                   http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/archive/lithium_ion_safety_concerns

Lead -          https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/lead/

Cadmium -   http://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/em1469/
                   https://gigaom.com/2008/09/25/cadmium-the-dark-side-of-thin-film/

More reading ;-

China's environmental disaster

Solar Panels & Their Toxic Emissions

Toxic Chemicals in Solar Panels



How much co2 is emitted to Build a Wind Turbine.

Wind Turbines Contaminate



Wind Turbines are neither Clean or Green

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Wind Energy is not Clean or Green

Wind Turbines are killing thousands of Birds

Solar Panels incinerating birds

More solar panels now means toxic landslide later

Wind Farm issues

Poison Wind

Baotou toxic lake

Solar farm not clean and green energy

Above, was just a small selection of thousands and thousands of videos and information on the web showing how unclean renewables are!! Do yourself a favour and google some more.......

Environmental Hypocrisy Uncovered!!

Rare Earth Minerals

A Scarcity of Rare Earth Minerals Is Hindering Green Technologies!!

Let's talk about where Wind and Solar come from and indeed most of our electronic everyday appliances.  Wind and Solar are not clean or green or renewable. They are toxic to our environment.

We bet the anti coal lobbyists have not thought about this?? What will they do when the Rare Earth Minerals run out??  And, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out!! They will run out!! More reason to keep coal as our major energy source for now and well into the future!!

A shortage of "rare earth" minerals, used in everything from electric car batteries to solar panels to wind turbines, is hampering the growth of renewable energy technologies.

With the global push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it’s ironic that several energy- or resource-saving technologies aren’t being used to the fullest simply because we don’t have enough raw materials to make them.

For example, says Alex King, director of the new Critical Materials Institute, every wind farm has a few turbines standing idle because their fragile gearboxes have broken down. They can be fixed, of course, but that takes time – and meanwhile wind power isn’t being gathered. Now you can make a more reliable wind turbine that doesn’t need a gearbox at all, King points out, but you need a truckload of so-called "rare earth" metals to do it, and there simply isn't the supply.

The move toward new and better technologies — from smart phones to electric cars — means an ever-increasing demand for exotic metals that are scarce thanks to both geology and politics. Thin, cheap solar panels need tellurium, which makes up a scant 0.0000001 percent of the earth’s crust, making it three times rarer than gold. High-performance batteries need lithium, which is only easily extracted from briny pools in the Andes. In 2011, the average price of 'rare earth' metals shot up by as much as 750 percent. Platinum, needed as a catalyst in fuel cells that turn hydrogen into energy, comes almost exclusively from South Africa.

Read More here: Scarcity of Rare Earth Minerals  

So-called 'Clean', 'green' solar & wind components also rely on Rare Earth minerals from China who supply 96% of supply?

Here is our green future! Picture below:

Such an intensive mining operation has a definite impact on the surrounding environment. According to the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, 9,600 to 12,000 cubic meters (340,000 to 420,000 cubic feet) of waste gas—containing dust concentrate, hydrofluoric acid, sulfur dioxide, and sulfuric acid—are released with every ton of rare metals that are mined. Approximately 75 cubic meters (2,600 cubic feet) of acidic wastewater, plus about a ton of radioactive waste residue are also produced.

Source: NASA

 

Wind energy is not nearly as “clean” and “good for the environment” as the wind lobbyists want you to believe. The wind industry is dependent on rare earth minerals imported from China, the procurement of which results in staggering environmental damages. As one environmentalist told the Daily Mail, “There’s not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment.” That the destruction is mostly unseen and far-flung does not make it any less damaging.

Source: Canada Free Press

The lake of toxic waste at Baotou, China, which has been dumped by the rare earth processing plants in the background

Which leads us to China , the true cost of the Green Wind power experiment.

Pollution on a disastrous scale.

The toxic lake poisons Chinese farmers, their children and their land. It is what's left behind after making the magnets for the latest wind turbines... and, as a special Live investigation reveals, is merely one of a multitude of environmental sins committed in the name of our new green Jerusalem.

Source: China's disaster!

Villagers Su Bairen, 69, and Yan Man Jia Hong, 74, stand on the edge of the toxic lake in Baotou, China that has devastated their farmland and ruined the health of the people in their community

It is also interesting to note, that to make solar panels and wind turbines you need coal. Coal is also not just used for energy production, there are a variety of uses of coal that a lot of people would not know about. (see below) So, to demonize coal and to say it should stay in the ground is ridiculous. We rely on coal for our everyday life. There is no substitute for it. Think about that !!!  Also, think about what sort of future you want for your family. Is Wind and Solar the answer??  NO , definately not. Wind and Solar are toxic to our environment. Why is it that people do not get this??  Time to wake up people. We have all been conned by the Wind and Solar lobbyists, politicians and the Greens.

WHAT IS COAL USED FOR?

Coal has many important uses worldwide. The most significant uses of coal are in electricity generation, steel production, cement manufacturing and as a liquid fuel. Around 6.6 billion tonnes of hard coal were used worldwide last year and 1 billion tonnes of brown coal.

Different types of coal have different uses. Steam coal - also known as thermal coal - is mainly used in power generation. Coking coal - also known as metallurgical coal - is mainly used in steel production.

Other important users of coal include alumina refineries, paper manufacturers, and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Several chemical products can be produced from the by-products of coal. Refined coal tar is used in the manufacture of chemicals, such as creosote oil, naphthalene, phenol, and benzene.

Ammonia gas recovered from coke ovens is used to manufacture ammonia salts, nitric acid and agricultural fertilisers. Thousands of different products have coal or coal by-products as components: soap, aspirins, solvents, dyes, plastics and fibres, such as rayon and nylon. Coal is also an essential ingredient in the production of specialist products:

Activated carbon - used in filters for water and air purification and in kidney dialysis machines.

Carbon fibre - an extremely strong but light weight reinforcement material used in construction, mountain bikes and tennis rackets.

Silicon metal - used to produce silicones and silanes, which are in turn used to make lubricants, water repellents, resins, cosmetics, hair shampoos and toothpastes.

Source: World Coal Association