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Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by FlyingSnake »

echelon wrote: post #117
nicoburns wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there's nothing strange about a country going to war That doesn't make it any less sickening. War is always a travesty.

We've grown up in our latte sipping bubbles, far removed from geopolitical competition for resources. America's postwar boom years resulted in a hegemon that largely avoided conflict. Now that power is more widely distributed amongst peer competitors, we're going to see the resource hungry animals we evolved as come to the forefront. There will be a great deal of contention, and some of it will be heated. If I had to…

> a hegemon that largely avoided conflict

I'm sorry but this ignores the history. Vast swathes of Africa, Latin America and Asia were in conflicts and turmoil, sometimes due to the same hegemon and her allies. The only region that was mostly conflict free in the post WW2 era was Europe and North America.

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Post by sleepyhead »

recuter wrote: post #6
slackfan wrote: post #3

Ah, so this timeless classic will trully be timeless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U

They are out in the open enriching uranium to 84% with a breakout time to a weapon measured in weeks now, how many reasons do you need really?

Hey warmonger. So which nation should bomb USA which has tons of nukes? What kind of sick reasoning is that? Iran, unlike nations like Israel, has inspections of their nuclear energy facilities by the IEAE.

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin »

myshpa wrote: post #127
ag315 wrote: post #82

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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…

Just 254x254 km of solar panels should be enough for the whole world. https://www.dlr.de/tt/Portaldata/41/Resources/dokumente/inst... - page 25

Especially if it were close enough to the sun to start making a cube!

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Post by fhars »

ArnoVW wrote: post #132
causi wrote: post #86

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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.

1000000 square meters are one square kilometer. Which is probably only about ten times the area required to build a nuclear power plant.

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Post by mxxc »

Adraghast wrote: post #139
mxxc wrote: post #129

very 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?

not what i said at all. it's obvious that the cradle is a whitewashed organ of a dictatorship that pretends to be neutral.

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Post by password1 »

steveBK123 wrote: post #34

A 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.

Such a weird take on this.

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matthewdgreen wrote: post #67
steveBK123 wrote: post #34

A 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.

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…

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