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Author Archives: borderslynn
Rare Earth Elements and Balance of Power
I write these blogs for me. I ask questions and search for answers in books and, mostly, exploring the Internet. Without Rare Earth Elements I would not be doing this. When I was born just after World War II, if … Continue reading
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Tagged arms industry, commerce, earth contamination, economies, ecosystem destruction, geopolitical, greenwashing, investment, military complex, military power, mining, oppression, pollution, rare earth tec, recycling, REMs, sludge, superpowers, trade, wastewater
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Generic Drug Supply and Raw Materials Supply
In March 2021, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, announced the UK was acquiring 10m doses from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and the key source of doses for Covax, a vaccine-sharing agreement on which poor and middle-income countries are relying. … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, black market, China, citizen ingenuity, costs of drugs, covid 19, crime, deaths from neglect, drug demand, drug making hubs, drug shortages, drug supply, elections, generic drugs, Hindi festival, human vulnerability, India, irresponsible decision making, lockdown easing, masks and no masks, poverty, power base, premature lockdown easing, reverse-engineering, rural areas, sanitation, social distancing, social distancing forgotten, tribes, vaccine industry
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Chromium. Industrial Contamination
To make a wind turbine, which is 78% steel, the Earth must yield up coal for coking plants to provide coke for furnaces to burn red hot to smelt iron ore. When the Earth yielded up iron ore, sulphuric acid … Continue reading
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Tagged chromium, contamination, corporates, dust pollution, ecocide, ecotoxicology, industrialisation, mining, pollution, steel industry, wind turbines
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Iron Ore. Industrial contamination
In the previous blog, I was finding out about the environmental price of making wind turbines. They are made up of around 70% steel. Steel is made from a process whose basic ingredient is iron ore. During mining, some harmful … Continue reading
Making Steel to Meet Demand. Industrial Contamination
To make a Turbine, a modern renewable technology, we need steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminium (0-2%). So to reduce the use of coal to … Continue reading
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Tagged blast furnace, cancer, coke, contamination, demand and supply, energy, health and safety, human invention, industrialisation, iron, poison, science, steel, technology, wind turbines
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For Now I See Through a Glass Darkly
We humans have successfully reproduced until we have covered this Planet with our 7 billion plus persons, and despite many threats we still persist. However the dinosaurs lived millions of years and only died because of an extinction event; whereas … Continue reading
