Mine, baby, mine – right in the United States! – Watt?

Jobs, income, national security, defense and medical needs; to end child labour, pollution

Paul Driessen

President Trump's executive order ends the United States' participation in the Green New Deal and the Paris Climate Treaty. He also terminates authorizations, programs and subsidies that will transform our reliable, affordable energy system for all electric homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, factories, farms, farms, transport and transport and transport all electricity, solar and battery power that is used in fully electric homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, factories, farms, farms, transport and transport and transport and transport all electricity, solar and battery power.

His actions will benefit wilderness, scenic scenery and agricultural land in the United States and around the world.

*Wind, solar and transmission line installations will be spread across tens of millions of acres, affecting habitat, farmland and scenic vistas, onshore and at sea; disturbing water flow, aviation, transportation and other activities; and killing whales, birds and other wildlife.

*These “clean, green” technologies require Raw materials more Equipment they replace: Electric vehicles require 4-6 times the minerals; onshore wind turbines have raw materials that are 9 times higher than the same megawatts as combined cycle natural gas turbines. Offshore wind materials require 14 times more material than gas turbines. Solar panels are also resource-intensive. and We still need Gas power plants or grid-scale batteries in windless/sunless periods.

*Those raw material needs to be mined at levels unprecedented in human history. Just satisfying the “normal” needs of “green energy” and copper will need to reach more than twice as much as in the entire human history. That would mean mine shafts and open mines; ore removal, crushing and processing; and unprecedented land, air and water pollution.

*Convert these raw materials into finished technology and transport, install, maintain and ultimately remove turbines, panels, transformers, power cords, batteries and other equipment, requiring a variety of materials, equipment and energy.

*All of these mining and processing, equipment damaged and damaged in normal operation and extreme weather, leaching of non-recyclable components of landfills and when the battery is ignited, huge hell sends a large amount of toxic chemicals to air, soil and water around the world.

* U.S. mining, processing, manufacturing and waste disposal will be conducted under tough environments, workplace safety and human rights standards. This is not the case in authoritarian regimes in other parts of the world.

*Most of cobalt, lithium, rare earths, graphite and other exotic and strategic materials still come from China, which has monopoly control over mining and processing. This puts us and Western energy, transportation, communications, artificial intelligence, defense systems and national security at great risk.

In short, humans must Destroy the Earth With green energy extraction and systems, it can be preserved from the climate disaster of fictional Gigo computer models.

President Trump's actions greatly reduce all of these mining needs, ecological impacts and dependence on countering countries. However, modern industrial civilization still requires a lot of metals, minerals and energy. We still have to find and produce these materials to meet today’s needs and tomorrow’s emerging and still unknown needs.

Thankfully, the United States has mineral wealth. Plate tectonics and other geological processes have produced a large amount of metals and minerals in Alaska and the next 48 states. Most have not been found yet, and are much smaller in mapping or development to meet strategic U.S. needs.

By 1994, when I helped prepare the last land evacuation summary, mineral exploration and development had been restricted or banned on federal land with Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Utah and Wyoming. That's 420 million acres – 19% of the United States; 66% of all federal/public land. Since then, things have become “gradually” worse.

Today, almost 80% of federally managed land prohibits (or strictly restricts) mineral exploration. And these 5 million acres of unaccessible land may contain many of the best metal and mineral prospects in the United States, again due to their unique geological history.

These lands are not enclosed by mineral exploration to protect landscape and ecological value, but have little consideration for their potential underground treasures, without which modern civilization cannot function. Many are Deliberately Abandoned the forbidden zones of anti-excavation activists, land managers and judges to prevent entry into the prospects and even reduce the U.S. industry and economy.

Indeed, despite the clear legal language, they gathered information about mineral resources through “planned, regular” mineral exploration, but they still did not explore it. Required According to law In designated wilderness areasif the exploration is carried out in a way that preserves the “wilderness environment”. If this work is needed in wilderness areas, there is no reason to forbid this work elsewhere, especially since today's technology ensures it can be done with minimal impact.

National parks should be a no-no area. In most cases, these other citizens owned land should not.

These land and mineral treasures belong to all Americans, not just hikers and anti-excavator activists. We begin to meet the basic ethical requirements of our needs Just in the United States – Not in foreign countries, those poor and powerless people have no say in this matter, and their influence and ideas on the virtuous activists, bureaucrats and politicians.

We must remove the barriers and immediately start exploring American minerals.

The process will begin with remote sensing technology on satellites, aircraft and drones to collect data on large areas of magnetic and other anomalies and trends, allowing geologists to identify potential mineralized areas. Artificial intelligence will help evaluate results faster and more detailed than ever before, thus better deciding which areas deserve a closer look.

The work of the antenna and ground will enhance these initial gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic and other investigations by mapping outcrops and indicator minerals to more accurately identify potential mineralized areas. This phase also includes rock and soil sampling, as well as analyzing data from mining and exploration over the past decades and centuries, as well as using relatively small equipment brought by trucks or helicopters to determine where core drilling can be performed.

A three-inch diameter core extracted from hundreds or thousands of feet below the surface will be examined and measured in the lab to measure the mineral content across multiple locations of the prospect. If the results are positive, other cores will be drilled out and the instrument may be dropped down to drill holes to collect more data. This will enable geologists and geophysicists to create 3-D computerized ore bodies that are deep in the surface – all with minimal ecological interference.

At some point, we will know enough about the underground resource potential of existing or completely new technologies – mining engineers, government experts, financiers and voters can determine whether companies should spend billions of dollars to extract ore… under U.S. land, air, air, water, water, wildlife, wildlife habitat, endangered species, residents, narratives and other requirements.

Today, Americans rarely work in farms or mines, oil fields, refineries or factories. Few people know where their food, clothing, cell phones, cosmetics and other essential products actually come from. Most people are surprised to learn that almost everything we touch or use ends up coming from holes in the ground. There is always; there will always be.

That's why we have to be in America “My, baby, me” to survive and thrive.

Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst for the Constructive Tomorrow Council (www.cfact.org) and the author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate change and human rights issues.

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