Tag Archives: mining

Start-up to Scale-up: Do No Harm

Posted on March 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Farmers might consider adding seaweed to the diet of their cattle because it will reduce the methane output by the animals by 80%! The research has been revealed in this article: https://theconversation.com/can-seaweed-save-the-world-well-it-can-certainly-help-in-many-ways-201459 But before we get too excited we must … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged batteries, carbon, climate, CO2, contamination, cutting emissions, emissions, energy, finite resources, funding, green steel, h2, industry, iron ore, mining, packaging, plastic curse, sand, scale-up, sea salt, sea salt battery, seaweed, start-up | Leave a comment

Rare Earth Elements and Balance of Power

Posted on May 3, 2021 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | 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 | 1 Comment

Concrete. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 25, 2021 by borderslynn

You cannot build a wind turbine without using concrete. Indeed, for each turbine, requires 900 tons of steel, 2500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic. The above image is in a design manual. Concrete seems to have been … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aggregates, cancer, concrete kiln, concrete manufacture, health and safety, lung disease, mining, quarrying, silica dust, silicosis, wind turbines | Leave a comment

Chromium. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 23, 2021 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged chromium, contamination, corporates, dust pollution, ecocide, ecotoxicology, industrialisation, mining, pollution, steel industry, wind turbines | 1 Comment

Nickel. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 22, 2021 by borderslynn

I am trying to uncover what goes in to making a wind turbine. I now know they are made up of around 70% steel, and to make steel iron ore is a major component in the processing. Nickel is mixed … Continue reading →

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Africa: the suffering of DR Congo peoples

Posted on June 8, 2020 by borderslynn

Coronavirus adding to their misery. Please follow this website: https://congoinconversation.fondationcarmignac.com And this website: https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/switzerland-opens-criminal-probe-into-glencore/?utm_source=ICIJ&utm_campaign=ed8fb2f734-0707_WeeklyEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_992ecfdbb2-ed8fb2f734-82075869 And as the elite demand their electric cars to virtue signal to the rest of us, we see the “dirty secrets” behind the making of such … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 95 percent pop in poverty, citizens in peaceful protest, covid 19, DR Congo, glencore, harsh crackdown, illegality, mining, pandemic | 1 Comment

Iridium and Outer Space: harnessing the elements for the advantaged

Posted on February 21, 2020 by borderslynn

The element iridium is more likely to be found in Solar System asteroids than in the Earth’s crust. Yet a Yorkshire, England, chemist identified the element in 1803. He found it in the residues from the solution of platinum ores. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asterioids, cheap labour, iridium, mining, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium and osmium, South Africa, South America, technology | Leave a comment

Today’s Hunter Gatherers of Latin America and Africa: part 2

Posted on September 14, 2019 by borderslynn

“The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua language meaning yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru, Bolivia, and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, african wildlife, Argentina, cameroon, chaco, deforestation, killing indigenous life, landowners, llama, mining, palm oil, poverty, tribal living | Leave a comment

Today’s Hunter Gatherers of Latin America and Africa: part 1

Posted on September 7, 2019 by borderslynn

For thousands of years to the present day we can still witness the struggle of those whose indigenous ancestors passed to them the spirit of determination to preserve their landscape and not leave a carbon footprint, nor any kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Argentina, Congo Basin, deforestation, DR Congo, exploitation, forest people, hunter-gatherers, iguasu, mining, rainforest, violence | Leave a comment

When we came home to our birthplace we thought we were superior beings

Posted on July 18, 2019 by borderslynn

As referred to in some of my previous blogs, the supercontinent which has been named Gondwana existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Jurassic (about 180 million years ago). The remnants of Gondwana make up about … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient history, botswana, diamonds, gold, kalahari, mining, music, namibia, san bush people, South Africa, southern africa | Leave a comment

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