Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT - TV Date: 10 Oct 2026 06:48:44 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <11a0e8d$11vos$1@dont-email.me> <11a0g0l$11hcr$7@dont-email.me> <11a197j$1de5v$1@dont-email.me> <11a28fj$1n9ag$3@dont-email.me> <11a2vth$20kbn$1@dont-email.me> <11a30em$20mv4$2@dont-email.me> <11a31hu$21a1u$1@dont-email.me> <11a5ckj$2res6$1@dont-email.me> <11ac97t$1c5nr$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Gp40mgtjM3PBwGfha1qYEA21tinU04L3Ubg0nzo79WzL0Jehli Cancel-Lock: sha1:6CY2lUAcliLS/z2dEZD/vy7MGIE= sha256:XMAA8SaC3aCa3rC9tVAycMQLU7MNKp6Y5UL69v+LC3U= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93289 On Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:51:40 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > Certainly it's a good aim. It gets a bit difficult when some essential > resource /is/ concentrated in one country/entity - but you gotta keep > looking. I believe some rare earths have been found in south-west > England, > but I don't know (a) if the quantities are significant (b) how long the > development cycle is. I don't think anyone's found significant helium > outside the US, nor whether anyone's really looking. Copper may be > another one. Oil (and gas) of course, though there isn't an effective > _monopoly_ anywhere on that. And so on. First you have to find it and then you have to jump through the hoops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine https://gbrw.org/proposed-thacker-pass-lithium-mine/ Suddenly a patch of sagebrush became of interest to ranchers, Indians, environmentalists, and bird watchers. To add to the drama many of the groups shunned Deep Green Resistance, a radical environmental group, since DGR has the quaint idea that men are men and women are women. There's also the cognitive dissonance of wanting green energy but not wanting to dig up the lithium required to make it work.