Mines

There is a monster looming just over the horizon, waiting to attack and bring down the Greenies. Its name is mining. These groups are just now realizing that to move forward with wind and solar requires the mining, refining and disposing of materials like copper, aluminum, lithium, cobalt along with the rare earth metals. They are beginning to understand that the path they have chosen is merely exchanging clean air for dirty water. Deep down they know this and thus their refusal to mine in the United States. On the the other hand they don't feel right mining in other countries so for the time being they just ignore the problem but time is running out. Once they decide to face this problem they will be forced to consider nuclear. When they see how much better thorium small reactors are they will grudgingly rethink the situation and move toward nuclear. Because they have been misguided the move is starting late but it is not too late. With the proper focus by government and industry these small thorium reactors can be coming off the assembly like planes at Boeing. They are placed on a semi truck and hauled to the use point.