Michael, Do you mind if I add this to my website? I am going to be pushing for awareness and education through my riding/racing. I think this was a well thought out/written statement. Jay
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Michael Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > I had an email sent to me trying to point out that raw materials to go > green > just arent there OR china controls all the resources. my response is as > follows: > > > I am also concerned about raw materials that are mined from the earth. > Would we just switch from draining the earth's oil to draining the > materials > needed to go green? > > My answer is no. we will start mining rare earth metals in place of oil > however we will be getting enough to complete the global shift from oil to > renewable energy and then stopping. Also the items made from rare earth > metals will last 20 to 30 years before needing to be replaced. We would > not > be just burn the metals like oil and then going back for more. Through > recycling the metals can be retrieved from the items we build with them. > The lead used for batteries is 98% recycled, so why not lithium batteries? > oddly enough, lithium isnt the main part of lithium ion batteries and in > fact do not contain any lithium at all, only an ionic form of lithium > produced from cobalt, copper, nickel and iron. > > China is the highest source for rare earth metals simply because its the > cheapest place to get them from. China treats its workers like slaves and > the government controls all the companies so they can control the prices. > I > would imagine when the going green shift ramps up the companies that once > searched for oil will search for the rare earth metals and find them > abundantly elsewhere other than china. > > The good thing here is when we get all the metals we need and start > producing the batteries, super capacitors, solar panels, etc... we will > make what we need for 30 years and then recycle the failing items and do > not > have to depend on mining. > > > http://seekingalpha.com/article/103972-rare-earth-metals-not-so-rare-but-valuable > > There is already a process that can divide all metals and plastic from > computer circuit boards so a process to recycle all the metals from lithium > batteries and solar panels to be reused isn't a far stretch. Europe has > already solved the problem by passing a law that all batteries, regardless > of type, must be recycled. > > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001626 > > As far as mass transit, I forsee a transportation system just like from the > movie "The Minority Report". Transport modules that run along electrified > tracks just like slot cars. When you want to go somewhere you just tell > the > transport where to go and it takes you there. > > we already had electric street cars that ran all over a city, so changing > all the roads to imbedded tracks to everywhere isnt a stretch because noone > but cargo transport people would have cars or trucks. > > as far as where the electricity comes from to power the transport units, > thats easy, over all the roads that are now slot tracks are solar panels. > Think how much power could be obtained if all roads had a car port type > roof > over them that was nothing but a huge solar panel. we would be producing > more power than we would need. > _______________________________________________ > Florida EAA mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.floridaeaa.org > _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
