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• Apple Pontificates on Your Carbon Foot Print

• The Fiery E-Bike of Death

• Elon's Myth Gets Fact Checked

• Around the Digital Patch

• Tweet of the Day

Apple Pontificates on Your Carbon Foot Print

Ever noticed your iPhone giving you a notice that it's utilizing Clean Energy Charging? And how does it know the power coming to your house is wind or solar supplemented? It's guessing from your location.

Well, there ain't no sun shining at night, so rule solar out.

This is something the team here at the OilPatch finds incredibly insulting from a global company that benefits from slave-labor-backed mining operations and massive fossil-fueled manufacturing processes.

The Dark Side of Apple's Battery Boom

The Congo has the world's largest deposit of cobalt, supplying 70% of the world's demand for the metal.

Apple relies on cobalt for their products, including lithium-ion batteries that power iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and MacBooks.

However, Congo's cobalt mining is linked to:

• child labor

• hazardous working conditions

• human rights abuses

Reports suggest that over 40,000 children work in dangerous conditions in Congo's cobalt mines, with exposure to radiation and accidental deaths

But Apple wants you to reduce your carbon foot print

That's right. You are the one in the wrong here.

Not Apple.

So act accordingly, serf.

The Fiery E-Bike of Death

Ever dreamt of owning an E-bike?

Me either, but “the level of ridership has almost doubled or more every year since 2015,” according to Mike Radenbaugh, founder of Rad Power Bikes.

But with the climb in users, there’s been a spike in injuries – even deaths.

Lithium-ion batteries are constructed in a complex and intricate process…

…involving the careful and precise arrangement of numerous components. These components include the anode, cathode, separator, electrolyte, and a casing to house them all.

Lithium-ion batteries’ chemical composition and energy storage make them prone to overheating, explosion, or catching fire if damaged, defective, or improperly used. Exposure to extreme temperatures can lead to failure, as can overcharging or puncturing.

Guess what often happens in bike E-Bike riding?

An Explosive Transition

So what do you get when you add a potentially explosive object with daily human activity?

Well, in the case of E-Bikes there have been a number of fires, injuries, and even deaths. Extrapolate this upwards from E-bikes to commercial-sized batteries, and then ask yourself:

What happens when we use industrial-sized batteries to power whole cities? Doesn’t sound too good to the Oilman.

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Elon's Myth Gets Fact Checked

The idea that just a small area of solar panels and batteries can power the world has gained significant traction, with some advocates calling it "an obvious move."

However, this claim is dangerously false, as it drastically underestimates the cost and space required to store the energy generated by solar panels.

Storing just 3 days of global energy would cost $590 trillion at Elon Musk’s current prices

Elon has claimed that a small section of Spain covered with solar panels and batteries could meet the energy needs of the entire EU.

However, to store just three days of global energy consumption would cost over $590 trillion at current prices, and the required panels would take up more space than all the world's cities, towns, and villages combined.

The focus on the space taken up by solar panels and batteries overlooks the real issue of cost-effectiveness

Due to the exorbitant cost of battery storage, no amount of solar panels can cost-effectively power the world. Moreover, solar panels can only generate electricity, which accounts for only one-fifth of the world's energy consumption.

Other forms of energy, such as industrial process heat and transportation, cannot be powered by electricity alone.

Solar and batteries cannot cost-effectively power the world due to stratospheric battery storage costs

The idea that just a small area of solar panels can power the world is a myth that ignores the impossibly high cost of necessary batteries and underestimates the space required for solar panels.

This myth has contributed to today's global energy crisis by artificially restricting fossil fuel supply.

While "renewable" energy is undoubtedly an essential helpful part of our energy mix, we must approach it with a realistic understanding of its capabilities and limitations.

Around the Digital Patch

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