Cobalt mining operation works to leave small ecological footprint | Nightline
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- 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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Oh boy.. if only people really knew the truth about cobalt mining😬
I guess they don’t care so much about Africa anymore
It's a shame they have to use so much cobalt for refining petrol & diesel, and for stainless steel production.
@@guringai Yeah its a shame that Fuel processing uses 7% of the annual cobalt demand and Batteries use 41%
@@thebeldam5823At least it can be recycled.
It's a real shame that petrol & diesel can't be used more than once.
@@guringai 🤦♂️
Never underestimate how soulless corporate media is.
Did you vote for Biden and Democrats though?
Yyyup
@@DuckmanYaHeard you're gross
@@DuckmanYaHeard imagine thinking that it matter who the president is.
That's like saying pringles would taste better If the label looked different
@@whirledpeas1182 they dont make em with common sense like you anymore.
Search cobalt mine and find out where your cobalt is really coming from.
THIS
Or the people of the Congo
Australia mainly
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
Who cares about clean if the purpose of clean is to protect people, and it hurts people.
Congo anyone?
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
So tell me how clean oil drilling is. And nothing nastier than an oil refinery.
EVs are just less bad than fuel cars
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,
The tone is so happy! Now watch how it’s mined in Congo! Go green!
So renewable energy isn’t so renewable when it uses finite materials.
It's all a myth
Just don't be breathing any dust of the Cobalt
By making sure there are less feet to make prints …
Half of the worlds Cobalt comes from Africa most from the Congo. Dug by hand from slaves and people making slave wages.
@@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 🤣🤣🤣
What a marked difference in mining standards compared to the artisanal "conflict mineral" mines in the eastern DR Congo!
They say that it is clean energy 🤣😂🤣😂
Nothing dirtier than an oil refinery.
@@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?
Are you that serious about global warming modern day slavery and other important issues
Idaho is stunningly beautiful! Wouldn't necessarily consider this "clean" energy as it's harming our landscaping and it's mining.
Does a forest of oil wells look better?
Oh they don't don't mind they love trump...zero regulation red state...
CA fights for its beauty 😍
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.
2 seconds worth of time for the poor Congolese children
It is also child slave labor.
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!?
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....
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?
@@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.
@@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
Cobalt Industry infomercial is what this nonsense is.
Screw this I'm jumping.... .
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.
Propaganda!!!
It's not propaganda but they should help the children in dr congo he are enslaved to mine cobalt
Its great that they're causing so little damage..🤣😂🤣
Shout out to George Floyd on 849 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals!
Your momma loves me
The need for EVs?
Harming landscape does not equate sustainability. #GreensustainabilityisaLie.
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.
Mate gave you seen the environmental & social nightmare of the oil industry in Congo?
Neither is necessarily worse than the other.
This is a very poor example of an active cobalt mine!!!!!
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..
Hypocrites
Solar....solar
....solar
Good joke