And aren’t we saying Iran has WMDs now?
Great timing guys.
Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve
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Correct--while the sun sends an enormous amount of free energy our way, it's maddeningly diffuse and requires enormous investments of energy and materials to capture it in a usable and reliable form. The Wynn in Vegas has a 160 acre solar farm in some of the sunniest land in the country and it provides...almost enough energy to power a single large hotel. None of this is to say that solar power is bad, just that we s…
1,370 watts per square meter isn't what I'd call diffuse. We're just not good at harvesting it.
A typical nuclear station genrates 1 Gw. You'd need 1000000 square meters (=1000 sq km) to generate the same thing.
Oh and we can only capture 20-30 % of the energy of the total light.
We're going to need solar power, and fossile fuel is madness. But to deny that solar power is not 'dense' seems irrational.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
The degree to which we’ve been blessed with resources and opportunity to do the right thing (and have consistently chosen to do the dumb thing) never fails to amaze me. Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels; vast reserves of lithium to help oil-producing nations smoothly transition us away from oil; huge and unusually-enriched Uranium deposits we could use to build power (but instead used to bu…
Nah the garden of eden comes from an extinction event where almost all humans were wiped out. The only survivors were trapped in a small piece of fertile land at the equator and everything else was solid ice. It would be easy to see that garden as a gift from god after you’ve seen everyone else freeze to death. Then you just need a reason to leave e.g overhunting or overpopulation or some dispute. Then the myth would…
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#134A strong argument for the existence of a diety is hilarious-if-true outcomes like the Ayatollah getting to have both oil & lithium to remain fully hedged through the EV transition. Too improbable for a fictional movie, but here we are. Life, as always, is stranger than fiction.
It would be entirely foolish for one to confuse theatrical displays of piety staged in Islamic Republic for any substantial connection to the said deity.
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#135Geological survey also discovered huge Lithium reserves in India¹ recently. I wonder how much undiscovered Lithium resources we're sitting upon.
1: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blexplainer/the-lithium...
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It depends on how much Terry Pratchett you have read.
Or Douglas Adams. Clearly such such a bizarrely improbable abundance of resources that are so mind-bogglingly useful could not have happend purely by chance so it is the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
Ah my two favourite 40k authors.
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Yep, US sanctions were working in the past, when US economy dominated the world. Right now sanctioning a country just means that you are giving China a free reign over it.
Anything that takes resources from Putin is worth it. China does not currently wage war in the center of Europe and neither it use terrorist attacks against civilian population in countries that compete with them.
That's because they do all of the above, and more, indirectly, using Russia as their puppet. They are too smart to do this openly. But you know, Putin would not start the war if he wasn't sure of China's support.
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#139very few people bringing up that thecradle is a pro-mullahs, pro-russia and pro-hezbollah outlet disguised as a normal geopolitics website? :)
As opposed to an anti-mullahs, anti-Russia, and anti-Hezbollah outlet that would be a normal geopolitics website?
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#140Maybe Iran will meet democracy
It did in 1953 when Prime Minister Mossadegh wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. The US and UK launched a coup to stop that and installed a dictator (who was initially reluctant to go along with this and had to be convinced). Then SAVAK cracked down on domestic secular left opposition for decades, aided by the CIA.