The Great Debate

nuclear

>>8949861
>this thread again
I'm gonna respond with this article again
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/12/lithium-mining-vs-oil-sands-meme-thorough-response/

thorium

Can we salvage this thread and make it about general mining and the environment?

How hard is it to mine underground, making minimal damage to the surface? And how common is it nowadays? Is it possible to use controlled explosions in underground mining?

>>8950080
Very, very hard, since mines are massive and are likely to collapse
is what common? if mining, Yes very.
controlled explosions are generally what are used, but underground would again increase chances of collapse

>>8950098
I meant how common is underground mining, compared to the usual methods?

>>8950113
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_mining_(hard_rock)
Semi-common, for certain things it seems

Biofuel out of brainlets. The oncoming African population boom is a blessing in disguise really.

>>8949861
lithium mining.
Lithium is extracted from brine using electrolysis .
Pic is not a lithium mine. It's a pit mine which means it's probably copper or moly

I sure wish operation plowshare went better. Would be fun to do mining with nukes


and god damnit we should have shut off the deepwater horizon well with a nuke. Could have been done super quick compared to the clustefuck cutoff capping thing they did

stupid treaties...

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>>8950134
>a boom of feral cannibals that are too stupid to sustain themselves
We need to build a wall

Is there even enough lithium in existence to reach scale on grid storage globally?

>>8950330
sure. if we used all known lithium supplies (that we knew of 7 years ago that is) we could make 10.6 billion Nissan leafs.