I just find it entertaining. I'm no American so I'm not as invested as many. I can say this, it is never a dull moment with your current president.
You don’t have to. They bring it up at every opportunity.
The "Brimstone process" is, from what I'm reading, still in the experimental stage. A "pilot project" was scheduled to be finished in 2025 but I can't find anything indicating the results. The process involves chemical heap leaching and just the mention of "leach" sent environmental shivers down my spine.
Incredible ain’t it……
I believe they’re leeching ore that’s already been quarried, or at least that’s how I read it, as opposed to in-situ leaching like Taesko has just started doing at their Florence copper mine in AZ.The "Brimstone process" is, from what I'm reading, still in the experimental stage. A "pilot project" was scheduled to be finished in 2025 but I can't find anything indicating the results. The process involves chemical heap leaching and just the mention of "leach" sent environmental shivers down my spine.
I am a mining historian with a PhD so I know something about how the industry works. It's always been 98% speculation and 2% production. Oh and yeah, I worked in an aluminum plant for six years.
If something sounds to good to be true it probably is. Turning ordinary "feedrock" (whatever that is) into aluminum sounds a bit fairy tale-ish to me. It is the fourth most common element in the earth's crust but also one of the most reactive. It grabs onto anything and everything and holds on tight. Breaking the bond and forcing/tricking it into binding with itself requires very special conditions and a LOT of energy. And I know this why? Because my first postgraduate work was in the sciences, primarily biology but also heavy loads in chemistry and physics. I don't know everything ... but I tried hard.
Yeah, you and Ray Charles saw that one coming.
Agreed. You have to take in several sources to get the truth. What I find frustrating is that the old main networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, stack their Sunday morning shows, such as “Meet the Press” with a host who argues every point with every Republican guest and often also spouts the last word in an interview of the Republican but hardly ever questions the answers she gets from Democrats. The show also has “round table” guests that are always a 3 to 1 ratio of three Democrats versus one Republican. I can hardly watch it anymore and my wife gets apoplectic if she watches the unfairness. In addition the “round table” usually includes former spokespeople from the Obama, Harris and Biden organizations who have never even been a real journalist. This is “Meet the Press”? Hardly. What a joke!
To be fair he has mentioned the aluminum plant in the past, not just pulling that card now
Oh please. Anytime you get big groups of people together for an exchange of ideas someone is going to come up with abad.idea. That does not make the entire group wrong. The Republicans are not perfect, but on the whole their side is far better than the desires of the Democrat party. The Left leans toward the dangerous. To put this into behavior of criminals which is something I know a lot about. Would you rather deal with an embezzler or a serial killer? Yes, both commit crimes, but those.crimes are.not equal. Neither party is perfect, but one side has made certain that I will not vote for them again.
So leeching at the mill/plant site is somehow more environmentally friendly? It would necessarily involve higher transportation costs than leaching at the quarry (which is why it's usually done at the site of extraction). Again, if you are correct, this process sounds even more fairy tale-ish.
