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6. They are a major exporter of oil, bitching about what their German customer...
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jan 14

...is doing to European electricity prices during Dunkleflaute.

Norway is a small country - I briefly worked there - doesn't have many cars, and thus will not require as many cobalt slaves as say, the City of New York, which has a population 1.5 times that of Norway.

It is of course unsurprising to find people fond of increasing the number of cobalt slaves working for the likes of Musk taking a trivial case, and pretending it's infinitely scalable.

After decade after decade of this bullshit, one would think such ethical homucculi might notice that the planet is burning while they wax romantic about the so called "renewable energy" car CULTure that did not come, is not here, and won't come.

That of course would be far too much to ask, as well I understand.

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