Alex Ates Haywood
1 min readJun 17, 2023

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No he's not wrong. I suggest a bit more research before you publish.

The quantity of metals required to manufacture just one generation renewables by Prof. Simon Micheaux may be a start.

You can access his paper through the Geological Survey of Finland. A summary is here and some digging will take you to his critics as well as other colleagues who agree with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc

Also check out the Intl. Monetary Fund report:

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2021/12/08/metals-demand-from-energy-transition-may-top-current-global-supply

The Intl. Energy Agency report

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/mineral-requirements-for-clean-energy-transitions

and the report from the International Renewable Energy Agency: https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Technical-Papers/IRENA_Critical_Materials_2021.pdf

and tell me how on creations not-so-green-anymore Earth are we going to accomplish all that is laid out in this article and by Mr. Jacobson?

Doomism is depressing but hope is killing me :-)

https://medium.com/@alexateshaywood/doomism-is-depressing-8106345f6fda

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Alex Ates Haywood
Alex Ates Haywood

Written by Alex Ates Haywood

After 20 years in finance I realized it was all a lie. Now I'm trying to figure out what 'it' is. Human being tired of being lied to.

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