[Rockhounds] was: New "Energy Miracle" substance - NOW: Minerals and climate change

[Albert McCann]

Axel,

May I have permission to post this on my Facebook page for the few family and friends I have?

There are both believers and deniers :-)

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> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of Axel Emmermann
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 10:16 AM
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> Subject: [Rockhounds] was: New "Energy Miracle" substance - NOW: Minerals
> and climate change
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> First a word of caution: it is NOT my intention to start a "flame". Should
> you feel that your heart rate and blood pressure are rising in the cause
> of this discussion, please do not engage in it 😉 I just think that there
> is room for debate and minerals can be VERY useful in our attempts to push
> back the ill effects of  industry.
> 
> My first point to be made is this:
> 	If you consider the future, only one of two opinions can be correct
> (for the greater part, and grossly generalizing)
> 1) the believers
> 2) the deniers
> 
> Case 1:
> a) If the believers are right and their opinion prevails in global policy
> making IN TIME, they will have saved the human race (or will have bought
> time to endeavor in attempts to reverse greenhouse effects).
> b) If they are proven to be wrong... ok, they will have set back economic
> growth somewhat and they'll be the laughing stock of all entrepreneurs and
> politicians for the next few hundred years.
> 
> Case 2:
> a) If the deniers are right: see case 1b
> b) If the deniers are wrong and their opinion prevails in global policy
> making we'll have won the prize for the "dumbest creature on earth" .
> We'll be our own Chicxulub and follow the dodo and the dinos into
> oblivion.
> 
> Completely devoid of emotion, this summarizes the possibilities.
> There may be some discussion about time frames and such but eventually it
> boils down to this.
> Now: is there an option that we absolutely don't want to see realized?
> 
> Lithium IS the better element when it comes to storing energy in batterie.
> However: HUGE economic interest are sitting in already established
> manganese mines (ye olde stuff). Lithium will struggle upstream like a
> salmon.
> The same is true for thorium. Nuclear reactors that "burn" thorium are
> much safer than uranium fission reactors. They simply cannot melt-down and
> the radioactivity of their waste products cools much quicker than those of
> uranium. They are not being built because thorium cannot be made into
> "weapon-grade" and vast financial interests are put into exploiting
> uranium deposits.
> Same is true for mercury in various applications...
> 
> Cheers
> Axel
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] Namens
> Mike Flannigan
> Verzonden: zondag 21 mei 2017 23:52
> Aan: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] New "Energy Miracle" substance
> 
> 
> Hogwash.  Fair warning - I am a denier (oh, my), even though I don't deny
> that we are experiencing global warming, as we have for the last ~16,000
> years.  Personally I think global warming is good, but I admit I may be
> wrong about that.  Regardless, the people who are pushing the global
> warming spectacle would consider me a denier.
> 
> If this Lithium Carbonate improves the performance of batteries, that
> could be a huge benefit to people.  If it actually produces or converts
> electricity or energy, please provide the reaction used and the exothermic
> KW per lb or joules per kg or But per lb, or whatever it actually produces
> (or converts).
> 
> People also exalt the great "energy producing" potential of fuel cells.
> Nope, they just convert energy that is already there.
> Almost at the same efficiency as burning hydrocarbons, but not quite.  But
> they keep trying.
> 
> Thanks for keeping us informed Larry.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
> Houston, TX
> 24 ft above sea level
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/21/2017 2:00 PM, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
> > There has been quite a bit of stir in the energy futures stock market
> these days, pushing a ?revolutionary? new energy source, which is touted
> to replace oil, gas, etc. as a new ?super fuel? in the future. There is a
> lot of hype by these ?Penny Stock? pushers, who do not disclose what
> exactly this fuel is.
> >
> > By digging around (no pun intended), on the Web, and reading the
> technical papers available, I personally believe that this new energy
> source is Lithium Carbonate, with a much higher ability to produce energy
> than the present pegmatitic lithium compounds.
> >
> > The ore is found in brines, in deep deposits of old marine sediments,
> similar to the Trona deposits  in California. Not much for a mineral
> collector to get excited about here, unlike holding specimens of
> lepidolite, lithiophyllite, spodumene, etc., that we can free from
> pegmatites.
> >
> > But, from a mineralogists point of view, this material, if it lives up
> to the hype, will be a new, important raw material for the next
> generation.
> >
> > List member geologists or chemists, please correct any misstatements I
> put forth here?.there is a lot of speculation, and not a lot of hard facts
> on this subject as yet.
> >
> > Larry Rush
> >
> >
> >
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