As evidenced by the significant vote against fracking British gas last Wednesday in the House of Commons, influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero or are busy snatching up the virtually unlimited funds currently being offered for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impractical green technologies.
They are unlikely to pay much attention to a recent 1,000 page alternative energy assessment conducted by Associate Professor Simon Michaux for a Finnish Government agency until the lights start to go out and the heating stops working. Michaux claims that there is “simply not enough time, nor resources to achieve this by the existing objective,” referring to the United Kingdom’s 2050 Net Zero goal.
Michaux mentions that “in principle” there are sufficient worldwide deposits of nickel and lithium if they are just utilized to create batteries for electric cars as just one illustration of how unaffordable Net Zero is. But more cobalt has to be found since there isn’t enough of it already.
Things just get worse. All of the new batteries only have an 8–10 year functional life, necessitating the constant production of replacements. This is unlikely to be feasible, he believes, which implies that the entire EV battery solution may need to be reassessed and a new, less mineral-intensive one devised.
Finding a mass of lithium for batteries that weigh 286.6 million tonnes will present all of these issues. But in addition, a “power buffer” of an additional 2.5 billion tonnes of batteries is needed to offer a four-week back-up for erratic wind and solar output.
Of course, the world’s mineral reserves simply do not contain this, but according to Michaux, it is unclear how the buffer would be provided by a different system.
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