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  • @jessefontenot9846
    @jessefontenot9846 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Never underestimate how soulless corporate media is.

    • @GeneTickles
      @GeneTickles ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you vote for Biden and Democrats though?

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yyyup

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GeneTickles you're gross

    • @whirledpeas1182
      @whirledpeas1182 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @KawaiiLuckyGirl
      @KawaiiLuckyGirl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @thebeldam5823
    @thebeldam5823 ปีที่แล้ว +56

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

    • @Horton13
      @Horton13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @guringai
      @guringai ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @guringai
      @guringai ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @thebeldam5823
      @thebeldam5823 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@guringai 🤦‍♂️

  • @forestfishburne7900
    @forestfishburne7900 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci ปีที่แล้ว +2

      THIS

    • @MegaAndy93
      @MegaAndy93 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or the people of the Congo

    • @guringai
      @guringai ปีที่แล้ว

      Australia mainly

  • @stonehalo1632
    @stonehalo1632 ปีที่แล้ว +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 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @crewmax4240
    @crewmax4240 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Congo anyone?

  • @thatdude4571
    @thatdude4571 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is also child slave labor.

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @MatthewM575
    @MatthewM575 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jimmybutler1379
    @jimmybutler1379 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 ?...

  • @arthurcronk7103
    @arthurcronk7103 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Lawlzinator
    @Lawlzinator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @guringai
      @guringai 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      EVs are just less bad than fuel cars

    • @guringai
      @guringai ปีที่แล้ว +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,

  • @jdubs604
    @jdubs604 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @bennyboy2079
      @bennyboy2079 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's all a myth

  • @herbalowl7983
    @herbalowl7983 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    East tn west NC take note!

  • @richardwilliams3839
    @richardwilliams3839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @eazypeazy33
    @eazypeazy33 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    By making sure there are less feet to make prints …

  • @goatrockhunters8000
    @goatrockhunters8000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Propaganda!!!

    • @ablcuyler2329
      @ablcuyler2329 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @MrJohhnycongo
    @MrJohhnycongo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @hannahporter2605
    @hannahporter2605 ปีที่แล้ว +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!?

  • @jordanjackman1537
    @jordanjackman1537 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2 seconds worth of time for the poor Congolese children

  • @jamies4861
    @jamies4861 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just don't be breathing any dust of the Cobalt

  • @peggygallagher5802
    @peggygallagher5802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does a forest of oil wells look better?

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @tocooh6838
      @tocooh6838 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @richardd408
    @richardd408 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cobalt Industry infomercial is what this nonsense is.

  • @tonysmith2045
    @tonysmith2045 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @wakeupworkout7781
    @wakeupworkout7781 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @markdlt2989
    @markdlt2989 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The need for EVs?

  • @anything_idc_
    @anything_idc_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Screw this I'm jumping.... .

  • @N9012-p6n
    @N9012-p6n ปีที่แล้ว

    Harming landscape does not equate sustainability. #GreensustainabilityisaLie.

  • @jeffreyblatman9387
    @jeffreyblatman9387 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @chrissanders541
    @chrissanders541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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..

  • @billyork8181
    @billyork8181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Horton13
    @Horton13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hypocrites

  • @alysononoahu8702
    @alysononoahu8702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Solar....solar
    ....solar

    • @DinoNucci
      @DinoNucci ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good joke