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@hazelnot @HI_Greens Y'all are missing an essential difference: that lithium (more for battery storage than for wind turbines, and on the way out in favour of sodium, which is as common as sea water), cobalt, rare earth metals (like niobium for the magnets in the direct-drive dynamos) is not *consumed*. It is *incorporated*, and then stays there for 20 years or so, before it is either discarded or recycled. The volumes are very different from oil and gas. There won't ever be a Strait of Hormuz for those things. Replacement technologies or alternative extraction options will always be way cheaper and faster than war, even for those parasites not themselves paying the human price.