It’s really not that straightforward at all.
The cobalt in fuel production is used as a catalyst and is consumed. Cobalt from a battery can be recovered.
There is more cobalt in the battery of the phone I am holding to type this response than there is in the battery in my electric car (which for the avoidance of doubt, has zero cobalt in it).
The cobalt argument is just that and usually lacks substance. The reality is, the reputable car companies don’t source their cobalt from child mines. I’d be more concerned about buying thing with batteries where there is a lack of supply chain transparency/due diligence.
tell me then what technology have the UK government done! Spending £679m towards the building of Sizewell C, in Suffolk nuclear project and it only powers 1 million homes what a joke
open a new coal mine in Cumbria it will be the first coal mine given the go-ahead in three decades (old news i know) because it cheaper then wind/solar farms what's next coal fires in the homes maybe! We're going backwards to old knowledge in Brexit Britain when any other countries political policies are catching up climate targets but the UK isn't one of them the new Government is taxing wind farms out of existence also we spend more money turning off wind farms and using gas as a backup great thinking Dr Spock lol
Now we have Facebook & Twitter groups is spreading Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States if it starts there we be next
You talk about saving billions of people instead of killing them first things first disarmament of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants is good start but US/EU/UK won't agree to it, and the human civilisation might be force into a nuclear war that we don't want! So is that the human knowledge can we can look forward to in the future?
