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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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КОМЕНТАРІ • 87

  • @thebeldam5823
    @thebeldam5823 Рік тому +56

    Oh boy.. if only people really knew the truth about cobalt mining😬

    • @Horton13
      @Horton13 Рік тому +8

      I guess they don’t care so much about Africa anymore

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому

      It's a shame they have to use so much cobalt for refining petrol & diesel, and for stainless steel production.

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 Рік тому +4

      @@guringai Yeah its a shame that Fuel processing uses 7% of the annual cobalt demand and Batteries use 41%

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому

      @@thebeldam5823At least it can be recycled.
      It's a real shame that petrol & diesel can't be used more than once.

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 Рік тому +2

      @@guringai 🤦‍♂️

  • @jessefontenot9846
    @jessefontenot9846 Рік тому +47

    Never underestimate how soulless corporate media is.

    • @DuckmanYaHeard
      @DuckmanYaHeard Рік тому +1

      Did you vote for Biden and Democrats though?

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci Рік тому +1

      Yyyup

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci Рік тому +1

      @@DuckmanYaHeard you're gross

    • @whirledpeas1182
      @whirledpeas1182 Рік тому +5

      @@DuckmanYaHeard imagine thinking that it matter who the president is.
      That's like saying pringles would taste better If the label looked different

    • @KawaiiLuckyGirl
      @KawaiiLuckyGirl 4 місяці тому +1

      @@whirledpeas1182 they dont make em with common sense like you anymore.

  • @stonehalo1632
    @stonehalo1632 Рік тому +11

    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

    • @JacobLeer-fd5zz
      @JacobLeer-fd5zz 14 днів тому

      Man Africa is forever trapped in slavery, working just enough if not just for a bit of food...😢

  • @forestfishburne7900
    @forestfishburne7900 Рік тому +12

    Search cobalt mine and find out where your cobalt is really coming from.

  • @crewmax4240
    @crewmax4240 Рік тому +6

    Congo anyone?

  • @MatthewM575
    @MatthewM575 Рік тому +8

    Half of the worlds Cobalt comes from Africa most from the Congo. Dug by hand from slaves and people making slave wages.

    • @MatthewM575
      @MatthewM575 Рік тому

      @@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 🤣🤣🤣

  • @goatrockhunters8000
    @goatrockhunters8000 2 роки тому +5

    Propaganda!!!

    • @ablcuyler2329
      @ablcuyler2329 2 роки тому

      It's not propaganda but they should help the children in dr congo he are enslaved to mine cobalt

  • @Lawlzinator
    @Lawlzinator 2 роки тому +8

    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

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 2 роки тому +2

      So tell me how clean oil drilling is. And nothing nastier than an oil refinery.

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому

      EVs are just less bad than fuel cars

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому +2

      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,

  • @thatdude4571
    @thatdude4571 Рік тому +3

    It is also child slave labor.

  • @richardwilliams3839
    @richardwilliams3839 2 роки тому +3

    Are you that serious about global warming modern day slavery and other important issues

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 2 місяці тому +1

    AND HOW MUCH WATER IS NEEDED IN MINING COBALT AND HOW POLLUTING IS COBALT MINING ?...

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 2 місяці тому +1

    AND HOW DOES THE USA PROFIT FROM THIS MINNG OF COBALT BY ANOTHER NATION FROM OUR NATIONAL FOREST AND IS ONE REASON SOME NATION FORESTS ARE OUT OF REACH FOR USA CITIZENS GATED ROADS ?...

  • @hannahporter2605
    @hannahporter2605 Рік тому +1

    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!?

  • @jdubs604
    @jdubs604 Рік тому +2

    So renewable energy isn’t so renewable when it uses finite materials.

  • @feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135
    @feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135 Рік тому +12

    Who cares about clean if the purpose of clean is to protect people, and it hurts people.

  • @eazypeazy33
    @eazypeazy33 Рік тому +1

    By making sure there are less feet to make prints …

  • @arthurcronk7103
    @arthurcronk7103 Рік тому +2

    The tone is so happy! Now watch how it’s mined in Congo! Go green!

  • @richardd408
    @richardd408 Рік тому +1

    Cobalt Industry infomercial is what this nonsense is.

  • @N9012-p6n
    @N9012-p6n Рік тому

    Harming landscape does not equate sustainability. #GreensustainabilityisaLie.

  • @jordanjackman1537
    @jordanjackman1537 Рік тому +1

    2 seconds worth of time for the poor Congolese children

  • @wakeupworkout7781
    @wakeupworkout7781 3 місяці тому

    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.

  • @jamies4861
    @jamies4861 Рік тому +1

    Just don't be breathing any dust of the Cobalt

  • @MrJohhnycongo
    @MrJohhnycongo 6 місяців тому

    What a marked difference in mining standards compared to the artisanal "conflict mineral" mines in the eastern DR Congo!

  • @tonysmith2045
    @tonysmith2045 2 роки тому +3

    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....

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому

      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?

    • @mariopuzo4509
      @mariopuzo4509 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @chuckruckus3648
      @chuckruckus3648 Рік тому

      @@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

  • @markdlt2989
    @markdlt2989 3 місяці тому

    The need for EVs?

  • @peggygallagher5802
    @peggygallagher5802 2 роки тому +4

    Idaho is stunningly beautiful! Wouldn't necessarily consider this "clean" energy as it's harming our landscaping and it's mining.

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 2 роки тому

      Does a forest of oil wells look better?

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 2 роки тому

      Oh they don't don't mind they love trump...zero regulation red state...
      CA fights for its beauty 😍

    • @tocooh6838
      @tocooh6838 Рік тому

      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.

  • @jeffreyblatman9387
    @jeffreyblatman9387 Рік тому

    This is a very poor example of an active cobalt mine!!!!!

  • @billyork8181
    @billyork8181 2 роки тому +2

    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.

    • @guringai
      @guringai Рік тому

      Mate gave you seen the environmental & social nightmare of the oil industry in Congo?
      Neither is necessarily worse than the other.

  • @YourMom-vl2sp
    @YourMom-vl2sp 2 роки тому +10

    They say that it is clean energy 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @easymoney8535
      @easymoney8535 2 роки тому

      Nothing dirtier than an oil refinery.

    • @wakeupworkout7781
      @wakeupworkout7781 3 місяці тому

      @@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?

  • @anything_idc_
    @anything_idc_ Рік тому

    Screw this I'm jumping.... .

  • @Horton13
    @Horton13 Рік тому

    Hypocrites

  • @alysononoahu8702
    @alysononoahu8702 2 роки тому

    Solar....solar
    ....solar

  • @chrissanders541
    @chrissanders541 2 роки тому +1

    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..

  • @cocksure8430
    @cocksure8430 Рік тому

    Its great that they're causing so little damage..🤣😂🤣