RE: The other problem with electric vehicles
August 18, 2021 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2021 at 11:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2021 at 5:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 17, 2021 at 9:39 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I was going by this..
https://qz.com/2047785/under-the-taliban...-minerals/
Then maybe you should have read the whole thing before you pushed the panic button. From the same article:
Quote:Competing factions within the Taliban would make it very difficult for any company to negotiate mining deals, and China is unlikely to extend to the group the scale of infrastructure loans that would be required to bring any sizable mining operations online, said Nick Crawford, a development economics researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank. That’s especially true after Chinese investors got burned on a $3 billion copper mining project in Afghanistan, that started in 2007 and , largely because of challenges related to the lack of infrastructure.
If the Chinese spent $3 billion on copper mining and got nothing for it, what makes you think they'll do any better with lithium? It looks as if the Chinese would have to essentially re-build Afghan infratructure to get anywhere, which will likely be prohibitively expensive, even for them.
Boru
Especially for them, insomuch as it's already been shown to be prohibitively costly to us. I don't want to deny chinas claim to fame, but a deeper wallet than the us isn't an item, it's not a thing.
(August 18, 2021 at 4:45 am)pocaracas Wrote: Where do the Taliban have the Lithium that China wants?
...they're hiding it in the same place that the valhallan future of the afghan people is kept. Just this side of never and nowhere.
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