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The global cost of securing a clean energy future is rising by the year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned Monday, estimating that an additional $44 trillion of investment was needed to meet 2050 carbon reduction targets. Releasing its biennial "Energy Technology Perspectives" report in Seoul, the agency said electricity would increasingly power the world's economies in the decades to come, rivalling oil as the dominant energy carrier. Surging electricity demand posed serious challenges, said IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven.
"We must get it right, but we're on the wrong path at the moment," Van der Hoeven told reporters in the South Korean capital.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 16 2014, @01:12AM
Why go back to a war zone and piss them off all over again.
Just send your miners out to your local garbage dump / land fill / junk yard, etc.
There is more metal laying around than you might realize. There is a US steel company (Nucor) who's whole business model revolves around metal recovery rather than mining.
There is scrap steal laying all over this country (any country, actually).
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(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday May 16 2014, @02:18AM
I was thinking along the lines of specific metal requirements like high concentrations of lead when mentioning war zones, absolutely there would be political problems with foreigners coming in to do it..
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 16 2014, @02:45AM
Pretty dispersed though I imagine. Unless you happen on one of those caches live of mortar rounds the terrorists use to make truck bombs. There seem to be an endless supply of these cached around the country. [google.com]
Maybe we can make them a deal. You keep the HE, just sell us the lead.
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(Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday May 16 2014, @03:00AM
haha, yeah, I've heard they cook with the explosives... :)I just did some mental gymnastics and leaps of logic and it would only take 50g of metallic lead in 500g dirt to be equivalent to typical lead ore (wiki actually says less than 10%) but then you also have the benefit of not having to convert it to metal and separate the other metals from it that are usually in lead ore, so dunno, there might be some deposits in heavily fought over areas worth something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#Occurrence [wikipedia.org]