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[Semmel]

I point to the linked report:

The Nordic Supply Potential of Critical Metals and Minerals for a Green Energy Transition​

They quote Talga from 2017, I bet the numbers would be a bit higher if the report was up to date

 

[cosors]

They quote Talga from 2017, I bet the numbers would be a bit higher if the report was up to date

I agree, at least it's the last or most recent report.

 

[Micreg]

Northvolt raises $1.1 billion!

Northvolt raises $1.1 billion to support factory rollout

Financing to support battery cell and cathode material production in Europe

northvolt.com

 

[cosors]

An article on the fly, I hope it hasn't been posted yet. Otherwise please let me know and I will delete it.

"Spotlight on Graphite: Prospects for Europe and North America​

By Kent Griffith
June 7, 2022 | Graphite, humble layers of hexagonally arranged carbon, has been the anode material in commercial lithium-ion batteries for over thirty years. There are seemingly daily updates about alternative anodes such as silicon and lithium metal, but what is new in the world of graphite?
Battery-grade graphite falls into one of two classes: natural or synthetic. Natural graphite is mined while synthetic graphite is produced from petroleum feedstocks. Both materials are highly processed to yield a purified, milled, spheroidized, and coated product. Natural graphite has to be mined and concentrated while synthetic graphite must be graphitized at ca. 3,000 °C. The environmental footprint of graphite is thus highly dependent on the ore grade, processing efficiency, and energy source of the manufacturing facility.
Historically, nearly all of the battery-grade graphite has come out of China. The United States is 100% import reliant according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Vehicle electrification and the transition away from fossil fuels has shifted Western energy security policies toward domestication of lithium-ion batteries from raw material extraction all the way through processing to final cell manufacturing.

Mark Thompson from Talga opened the discussion on graphite at the 2022 International Battery Seminar by pointing out the misaligned timescales upstream in the battery supply chain, noting, “It takes three years to build a battery factory, it takes about ten years to build a mine. There is a huge disconnect between the supply of raw materials and desired volume of batteries.” Talga, headquartered in Perth, Australia, is developing natural graphite mines in northern Sweden. Their R&D headquarters are in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Thompson thinks that graphite is relatively overlooked in the battery ecosystem in part simply because it is not a metal. However, he noted that the graphite anode is responsible for up to 50% of the CO2 emissions from battery production. Compared to synthetic graphite that is often processed with coal power in Mongolia, Thompson emphasized that “Earth metamorphizing carbon for you saves a lot of energy.”
Coming back to resource grade and scale, the two Talga projects in Sweden—Vittangi and Jalkunen—each contain 4.7 million tons of graphite at grades of 24% and 14.9% graphite, respectively. High graphite content in the ore translates to lower raw material that must be extracted from the ground. Ore grade is not the only relevant metric; overburden and barren rock (waste rock that must be removed to get to the ore deposit) as well as processing losses combine to determine the total volume of material that must be moved to reach the final product.
A recent study in Environmental Science and Technology calculated these factors together to determine the “rock-to-metal” ratio for the production of 25 mineral commodities (Figure 1). Unfortunately, values were not available for graphite, but the data provide context for battery-relevant minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, iron, titanium, silicon, copper, and aluminum. According to Talga, process innovations in float recovery rate and anode-feed flake size suitability enable them to realize processing yields of 78% from ore to anode, which they estimate to be nearly four times higher than some leading competitors. So, while some data related primarily to waste rock is missing, it seems reasonable to put graphite in the lower right-hand corner of the rock-to-‘metal’ chart.

Figure 1 – Log-scale plot of rock-to-metal ratio required to produce 25 mineral commodities. Reproduced from Nassar, Lederer, Brainard, Padilla, and Lessard “Rock-to-Metal Ratio: A Foundational Metric for Understanding Mine Wastes” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56, 6710–6721 under CC–BY license.
Talga estimates that their facility powered with renewable energy in northern Sweden can process enough graphite for 100 GWh of batteries with only 100 metric tons of CO2, compared to 3,700,000 metric tons of CO2 from a China-based synthetic graphite plant. Note that the energy demands are 2.3 TWh vs. 4.1 TWh, respectively, so the enormous difference is primarily in the carbon intensity of the energy source. Putting this together with the aforementioned resource considerations could translate to 2.9 metric tons of CO2 saved per 76 kWh electric vehicle battery (Figure 2), which represents a substantial fraction of the approximately 4–15 metric tons of CO2 required to produce a battery of that size.

Figure 2 – Cradle-to-gate metric ton CO2-equivalent per metric ton of coated anode. Source: Talga – Life Cycle Assessment by Hitatchi ABB Power Grids (ASX:TLG 12 Aug 2021); Leading Edge Materials – public announcement 21 June 2021; Northern Graphite – public announcement 14 Feb 2022; China Natural – Engels et al, 2022, “Life cycle assessment of natural graphite production for lithium-ion battery anodes”; Syrah Resources, public announcement 31 Jan 2022; China Synthetic (ASX:TLG 15 Dec 2020, Investor Presentation, Source: Recruit Report).
Graphite supply and demand mismatch was echoed by Bridget Deveney of Vianode, a Norwegian graphite producer. In terms of both cost and environmental impact, she highlighted a subtle point that the low bulk density of graphite (0.6 g/cm3) is unfavorable for shipping it from Asia to the booming class of European Gigafactories. With the high shipping container costs, what used to add $0.07–0.08/kg now adds $0.40/kg. Vianode will produce graphite with a low carbon footprint through the use of clean Norwegian hydropower and a closed furnace system that has better heat utilization and lower emissions than open furnaces.
Talga commissioned their first anodes in March 2022 with plans for 20,000 m.t./year in 2024 and an expansion to 100,000 m.t./year of their signature Talnode-C product in 2025–2026. Vianode is doing product scale-up in an industrial pilot plant with capacity of 200 metric tons per year. Though they started only a year ago, Vianode is an Elkem company, one of the largest producers of metallurgical silicon and an experienced material manufacturer. As a result, Vianode is scaling fast with plans for a 4,000 metric tons/year plant in Herøya, Norway in 2023 and a 70,000 metric tons/year plant in 2024. Their site sits on an island in the middle of a fjord. Both companies are also developing silicon–graphite composite anodes.
Looking to the North America, Anovion Battery Materials is building out a synthetic graphite supply chain with three plants planned in the southeastern U.S. A merger of Amsted Graphite Materials and Pyrotek, Anovion came onto the scene in March 2022 behind decades of experience in synthetic graphite manufacturing and graphite anode production. Jeremy Schrooten and Ian McCallum of Anovion shared their technology and future plans at the International Battery Seminar. By 2025 the company is targeting 30,000–50,000 tons/year, with a roadmap to 150,000 tons/year in the longer term. They hope to capitalize on graphite anode market growth that they predict to expand from 1,200,000 tons in 2021 to 6,900,000 tons in 2031. The presenters see the North American share of that market at 900,000 tons by 2031 with a 50:50 split of natural and synthetic graphite.
Novonix, another North American synthetic graphite manufacturer, brought a large team to exhibit at the conference Orlando. Last summer, Novonix purchased a second facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. that will allow them to expand their graphite production capacity to 10,000 metric tons/year by 2023. Their Chief Scientific Advisor, Jeff Dahn, stated in his plenary lecture that, “Natural graphite is not competitive with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”
Graphite is a critical mineral not to be overlooked in the battery space. Supply is racing to keep up with demand, which means new mines and new synthetic production. While invested parties will debate the merits of natural vs. synthetic graphite, the reality is that the expansion of gigafactories for EV batteries will create a demand for any quality graphite coming online for the foreseeable future."
https://www.batterypoweronline.com/...phite-prospects-for-europe-and-north-america/

 

[Slymeat]

“Talga estimates that their facility powered with renewable energy in northern Sweden can process enough graphite for 100 GWh of batteries with only 100 metric tons of CO2, compared to 3,700,000 metric tons of CO2 from a China-based synthetic graphite plant.”

They really need say nothing more!

The world simply MUST take this into consideration, and EV manufacturers will have to—according to new laws requiring them to track the environmental footprint through the supply chain.

 

[Semmel]

https://nitter.net/dinosaurman1/status/1545065260469522432

Finally a new tweet from Mark and it comes attached with a Like from Diess! Only his answer where he does not want to confirm that the anode sample came from Talga is a bit confusing. But, read very carefully, he only denied that he SAID it's from Talga, he DIDNT deny that it IS from Talga. So that is (if you want to read between the lines) almost a confirmation that the anode sample is indeed from Talga

 

[cosors]

https://nitter.net/dinosaurman1/status/1545065260469522432

Finally a new tweet from Mark and it comes attached with a Like from Diess! Only his answer where he does not want to confirm that the anode sample came from Talga is a bit confusing. But, read very carefully, he only denied that he SAID it's from Talga, he DIDNT deny that it IS from Talga. So that is (if you want to read between the lines) almost a confirmation that the anode sample is indeed from Talga

Semmel, that's a hammer find! Makes me all tingly Thank you!

 

[WheresTheMonkey]

An article on the fly, I hope it hasn't been posted yet. Otherwise please let me know and I will delete it.

"Spotlight on Graphite: Prospects for Europe and North America​

By Kent Griffith
June 7, 2022 | Graphite, humble layers of hexagonally arranged carbon, has been the anode material in commercial lithium-ion batteries for over thirty years. There are seemingly daily updates about alternative anodes such as silicon and lithium metal, but what is new in the world of graphite?
Battery-grade graphite falls into one of two classes: natural or synthetic. Natural graphite is mined while synthetic graphite is produced from petroleum feedstocks. Both materials are highly processed to yield a purified, milled, spheroidized, and coated product. Natural graphite has to be mined and concentrated while synthetic graphite must be graphitized at ca. 3,000 °C. The environmental footprint of graphite is thus highly dependent on the ore grade, processing efficiency, and energy source of the manufacturing facility.
Historically, nearly all of the battery-grade graphite has come out of China. The United States is 100% import reliant according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Vehicle electrification and the transition away from fossil fuels has shifted Western energy security policies toward domestication of lithium-ion batteries from raw material extraction all the way through processing to final cell manufacturing.

Mark Thompson from Talga opened the discussion on graphite at the 2022 International Battery Seminar by pointing out the misaligned timescales upstream in the battery supply chain, noting, “It takes three years to build a battery factory, it takes about ten years to build a mine. There is a huge disconnect between the supply of raw materials and desired volume of batteries.” Talga, headquartered in Perth, Australia, is developing natural graphite mines in northern Sweden. Their R&D headquarters are in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Thompson thinks that graphite is relatively overlooked in the battery ecosystem in part simply because it is not a metal. However, he noted that the graphite anode is responsible for up to 50% of the CO2 emissions from battery production. Compared to synthetic graphite that is often processed with coal power in Mongolia, Thompson emphasized that “Earth metamorphizing carbon for you saves a lot of energy.”
Coming back to resource grade and scale, the two Talga projects in Sweden—Vittangi and Jalkunen—each contain 4.7 million tons of graphite at grades of 24% and 14.9% graphite, respectively. High graphite content in the ore translates to lower raw material that must be extracted from the ground. Ore grade is not the only relevant metric; overburden and barren rock (waste rock that must be removed to get to the ore deposit) as well as processing losses combine to determine the total volume of material that must be moved to reach the final product.
A recent study in Environmental Science and Technology calculated these factors together to determine the “rock-to-metal” ratio for the production of 25 mineral commodities (Figure 1). Unfortunately, values were not available for graphite, but the data provide context for battery-relevant minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, iron, titanium, silicon, copper, and aluminum. According to Talga, process innovations in float recovery rate and anode-feed flake size suitability enable them to realize processing yields of 78% from ore to anode, which they estimate to be nearly four times higher than some leading competitors. So, while some data related primarily to waste rock is missing, it seems reasonable to put graphite in the lower right-hand corner of the rock-to-‘metal’ chart.

Figure 1 – Log-scale plot of rock-to-metal ratio required to produce 25 mineral commodities. Reproduced from Nassar, Lederer, Brainard, Padilla, and Lessard “Rock-to-Metal Ratio: A Foundational Metric for Understanding Mine Wastes” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56, 6710–6721 under CC–BY license.
Talga estimates that their facility powered with renewable energy in northern Sweden can process enough graphite for 100 GWh of batteries with only 100 metric tons of CO2, compared to 3,700,000 metric tons of CO2 from a China-based synthetic graphite plant. Note that the energy demands are 2.3 TWh vs. 4.1 TWh, respectively, so the enormous difference is primarily in the carbon intensity of the energy source. Putting this together with the aforementioned resource considerations could translate to 2.9 metric tons of CO2 saved per 76 kWh electric vehicle battery (Figure 2), which represents a substantial fraction of the approximately 4–15 metric tons of CO2 required to produce a battery of that size.

Figure 2 – Cradle-to-gate metric ton CO2-equivalent per metric ton of coated anode. Source: Talga – Life Cycle Assessment by Hitatchi ABB Power Grids (ASX:TLG 12 Aug 2021); Leading Edge Materials – public announcement 21 June 2021; Northern Graphite – public announcement 14 Feb 2022; China Natural – Engels et al, 2022, “Life cycle assessment of natural graphite production for lithium-ion battery anodes”; Syrah Resources, public announcement 31 Jan 2022; China Synthetic (ASX:TLG 15 Dec 2020, Investor Presentation, Source: Recruit Report).
Graphite supply and demand mismatch was echoed by Bridget Deveney of Vianode, a Norwegian graphite producer. In terms of both cost and environmental impact, she highlighted a subtle point that the low bulk density of graphite (0.6 g/cm3) is unfavorable for shipping it from Asia to the booming class of European Gigafactories. With the high shipping container costs, what used to add $0.07–0.08/kg now adds $0.40/kg. Vianode will produce graphite with a low carbon footprint through the use of clean Norwegian hydropower and a closed furnace system that has better heat utilization and lower emissions than open furnaces.
Talga commissioned their first anodes in March 2022 with plans for 20,000 m.t./year in 2024 and an expansion to 100,000 m.t./year of their signature Talnode-C product in 2025–2026. Vianode is doing product scale-up in an industrial pilot plant with capacity of 200 metric tons per year. Though they started only a year ago, Vianode is an Elkem company, one of the largest producers of metallurgical silicon and an experienced material manufacturer. As a result, Vianode is scaling fast with plans for a 4,000 metric tons/year plant in Herøya, Norway in 2023 and a 70,000 metric tons/year plant in 2024. Their site sits on an island in the middle of a fjord. Both companies are also developing silicon–graphite composite anodes.
Looking to the North America, Anovion Battery Materials is building out a synthetic graphite supply chain with three plants planned in the southeastern U.S. A merger of Amsted Graphite Materials and Pyrotek, Anovion came onto the scene in March 2022 behind decades of experience in synthetic graphite manufacturing and graphite anode production. Jeremy Schrooten and Ian McCallum of Anovion shared their technology and future plans at the International Battery Seminar. By 2025 the company is targeting 30,000–50,000 tons/year, with a roadmap to 150,000 tons/year in the longer term. They hope to capitalize on graphite anode market growth that they predict to expand from 1,200,000 tons in 2021 to 6,900,000 tons in 2031. The presenters see the North American share of that market at 900,000 tons by 2031 with a 50:50 split of natural and synthetic graphite.
Novonix, another North American synthetic graphite manufacturer, brought a large team to exhibit at the conference Orlando. Last summer, Novonix purchased a second facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. that will allow them to expand their graphite production capacity to 10,000 metric tons/year by 2023. Their Chief Scientific Advisor, Jeff Dahn, stated in his plenary lecture that, “Natural graphite is not competitive with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”
Graphite is a critical mineral not to be overlooked in the battery space. Supply is racing to keep up with demand, which means new mines and new synthetic production. While invested parties will debate the merits of natural vs. synthetic graphite, the reality is that the expansion of gigafactories for EV batteries will create a demand for any quality graphite coming online for the foreseeable future."
https://www.batterypoweronline.com/...phite-prospects-for-europe-and-north-america/

This is interesting from your article

Novonix, another North American synthetic graphite manufacturer, brought a large team to exhibit at the conference Orlando. Last summer, Novonix purchased a second facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. that will allow them to expand their graphite production capacity to 10,000 metric tons/year by 2023. Their Chief Scientific Advisor, Jeff Dahn, stated in his plenary lecture that, “Natural graphite is not competitive with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”

I interpret that as not cost effective when I would have thought he would have defended synthetic by saying "Due to it's inconsistency in quality natural graphite is not as efficient or effective with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”

His use of the word "competitive" is surprising

 

[WheresTheMonkey]

Semmel, that's a hammer find! Makes me all tingly Thank you!
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OK so what is that guy in the photo holding up to the light...........admiring it's purity...........remember the video where Talga were excavating graphite in rather perfect blocks big and small ?................a piece of raw graphite ?

I'm sure he is going to carve it into the shape of a VW Golf

 

[cosors]

This is interesting from your article

Novonix, another North American synthetic graphite manufacturer, brought a large team to exhibit at the conference Orlando. Last summer, Novonix purchased a second facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. that will allow them to expand their graphite production capacity to 10,000 metric tons/year by 2023. Their Chief Scientific Advisor, Jeff Dahn, stated in his plenary lecture that, “Natural graphite is not competitive with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”

I interpret that as not cost effective when I would have thought he would have defended synthetic by saying "Due to it's inconsistency in quality natural graphite is not as efficient or effective with synthetic graphite for long lifetime cells.”

His use of the word "competitive" is surprising

Some say this, others that. Perhaps he is referring to laboratory tests.

Some say that NG is cheaper and more environmentally friendly and others that this is why SG and NG are mixed and the proportion of NG in the mixture will increase.

And in the end everyone defends his product. Here in Germany a
highly dubious study for SGL Carbon and their SG to put the product in the right light and to get funds. Or Chinese do not get tired to create studies that put SG in the light. Who is surprised.
He seems to have to maneuver his way through the arguments and can't decide between effective and efficient.
I'm thinking about that Talga will deliver ready-made anodes and I mean somewhere mentioned that they are experimenting with blends. Where would or does Talga purchase the most sustainable SG for this blend? And NV wants to make the most sustainable batteries in the world...

 

[TentCity]

OK so what is that guy in the photo holding up to the light...........admiring it's purity...........remember the video where Talga were excavating graphite in rather perfect blocks big and small ?................a piece of raw graphite ?

I'm sure he is going to carve it into the shape of a VW Golf

I just watched the VW SalzGiga presentation on YouTube and there was no mention at all of graphite or the chemistry of their battery cells to my surprise. It looks like Mark has based his tweet entirely from that dude holding up a piece of graphite (if that’s what it is!).

Having said all that, I’m sure given the VW investment in NV and commitment to building the greenest batteries and sourcing more battery minerals locally in Europe that Talga and VW are well acquainted with each other. The other giveaway was Herbert Diess giving Mark a ‘Like’ for his tweet, suggesting the two are known to each other and the message was accurate.

I’m going to go on record and suggest that VW will take an equity stake (similar to the Stellantis deal with Vulcan) and will be part of a broader strategic partnership and long term binding offtake deal between the two companies. Time will tell how well this call ages!

 

[WheresTheMonkey]

I just watched the VW SalzGiga presentation on YouTube and there was no mention at all of graphite or the chemistry of their battery cells to my surprise. It looks like Mark has based his tweet entirely from that dude holding up a piece of graphite (if that’s what it is!).

Having said all that, I’m sure given the VW investment in NV and commitment to building the greenest batteries and sourcing more battery minerals locally in Europe that Talga and VW are well acquainted with each other. The other giveaway was Herbert Diess giving Mark a ‘Like’ for his tweet, suggesting the two are known to each other and the message was accurate.

I’m going to go on record and suggest that VW will take an equity stake (similar to the Stellantis deal with Vulcan) and will be part of a broader strategic partnership and long term binding offtake deal between the two companies. Time will tell how well this call ages!

I agree equity funding is possible or even like the Ford offtake with Australian lithium producer Liontown which included this

Liontown said it has also secured a debt facility of A$300 million ($207.21 million) from a Ford unit to further develop the Kathleen Valley project.

Australia's Liontown inks lithium deal with Ford after Tesla, LG agreements

Liontown Resources Ltd signed a lithium supply agreement with Ford Motor Co , the Australian miner's latest after similar deals earlier this year with Tesla and electric vehicle (EV) battery maker LG Energy .

www.reuters.com

 

[Semmel]

I just watched the VW SalzGiga presentation on YouTube and there was no mention at all of graphite or the chemistry of their battery cells to my surprise. It looks like Mark has based his tweet entirely from that dude holding up a piece of graphite (if that’s what it is!).

Having said all that, I’m sure given the VW investment in NV and commitment to building the greenest batteries and sourcing more battery minerals locally in Europe that Talga and VW are well acquainted with each other. The other giveaway was Herbert Diess giving Mark a ‘Like’ for his tweet, suggesting the two are known to each other and the message was accurate.

I’m going to go on record and suggest that VW will take an equity stake (similar to the Stellantis deal with Vulcan) and will be part of a broader strategic partnership and long term binding offtake deal between the two companies. Time will tell how well this call ages!

I didn't actually watch the presentation, currently too busy with family and work for this.. but that's actually a bit disappointing that graphite was not mentioned. The exchange on Twitter is still valid of course but ... If that is the case than Marks tweet seems to be even more relevant, as he wasn't triggered by the presentation to write this initially.

An equity stake by VW seems likely for me as well. Maybe 10%, hopefully not more. However, i hope it comes at a share price north of 3AUD. At current valuation, i would feel robbed by an outside organization. If we get the permissions, our risk level drops to almost zero (it is there already in my opinion, but we lack the official rubber stamp), and our yearly revenue on the mine would exceed the current valuation. It's just not a fair valuation at moment. So let's see how this plays out, we need the money eventually, let's hope we don't need it too early for selling our equity for cheap.

 

[cosors]

I just watched the VW SalzGiga presentation on YouTube and there was no mention at all of graphite or the chemistry of their battery cells to my surprise. It looks like Mark has based his tweet entirely from that dude holding up a piece of graphite (if that’s what it is!).

Having said all that, I’m sure given the VW investment in NV and commitment to building the greenest batteries and sourcing more battery minerals locally in Europe that Talga and VW are well acquainted with each other. The other giveaway was Herbert Diess giving Mark a ‘Like’ for his tweet, suggesting the two are known to each other and the message was accurate.

I’m going to go on record and suggest that VW will take an equity stake (similar to the Stellantis deal with Vulcan) and will be part of a broader strategic partnership and long term binding offtake deal between the two companies. Time will tell how well this call ages!

Is it possible that MT was present in person? There are a lot of guests to be seen. Maybe he got into conversation. Diess would not react if there was no direct reference.

 

[TentCity]

Is it possible that MT was present in person? There are a lot of guests to be seen. Maybe he got into conversation. Diess would not react if there was no direct reference.

As much as i would love to think Mark was in attendance, I suspect he’s in his usual hideout of WA.

There was no natural segue from the content presented by VW and Mark’s tweet. Therefore, it more likely reflects private conversations/dealings between Talga & VW and a good excuse for MT to throw out a decent sized breadcrumb to remind the market that graphite is a core part of one of the largest auto markers future plans.

 

[cosors]

Michael Manske Head of CEO & Digital Communications of Volkswagen AG retweeted MTs tweet:

I think he thinks that it's worth VW spreading globally that graphite anode examples (from ? Talga) have a role to play
I don't want to read too much into it.

 

[cosors]

An opinion:

"Therefore, a new kind of environmental movement is needed​

A new movement is needed for all of us who, on a scientific basis, take climate change very seriously but are tired of anxious chronicles, shame and doomsday prophecies.

Magnus Aschan25.Oct.2021 3 min read
Mankind has a long tradition of predicting doomsday . But fortunately, despite predictions of nuclear war, epidemics and asteroid strikes, no one has been right.
Now, in 2021, when, despite the pandemic, we have a historically long life expectancy, low child mortality, few dying in natural disasters, a record number of children in school and record poverty in the world, competition has intensified over who predicts the darkest future.
In a tone that has long since passed the falsetto stage, we have in recent years been bombarded by headlines that our entire civilization is on its way down to the abyss.
"We only have ten years to save the climate ," said our former climate minister, Isabella Lövin, in the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation's membership magazine Sveriges Natur . " We have five years to avoid the disaster ," wrote the Green Party Alice Bah Kuhnke, Pär Holmgren and Rebecka Le Moine in Expressen .
On the cultural side, Björn Wiman and Jens Liljestrand compete to break each other in anxiety over the world's imminent doom. “The whole of modern civilization is one big metaphorical may fire. We dry out the large forests and then we turn on " , writes the former while the latter speculates that it is " unlikely that my child will be allowed to live on a planet that is at all habitable " .
With shame, guilt and anxiety as the driving force, evening newspapers and news broadcasts in recent years have drummed up the solution to stop flying, stop consuming and stop having children.
But there is no solution. That is the lack of a solution. It is capitulation, abandonment and regression.
The reason is that alarmism is not interested in solutions, as it undermines alarmism itself.
Darkness and anxiety should make us react and realize the danger. This time it may be a sharp situation and we can not take a chance when our living environment is at stake.
The problem is that doomsday rhetoric does not work, regardless of the truth.
The Green Party has made two lousy choices and with 3.0 percent in the latest poll by Aftonbladet and Demoskop, the party has the weakest support in the survey in 16 years.
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, with its more than 200,000 members, has grown weakly in recent years, despite the fact that an entire family can become members for roughly the same price as an adult. This is despite the fact that the issue has been high on the agenda during the same period and that people are more committed than ever to climate and sustainability.
The problem, according to psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes , is that threats of doomsday and guilt paralyze rather than change. People are getting bored of constant crisis and moralizing.
Therefore, a new climate movement is needed that focuses exclusively on opportunities and solutions, not shame and fear. A movement with a vision of a better society, which we have already begun to build on, where we jointly increase the pace of construction. This is driven by an enormously powerful technological development that in its wake changes behaviors and societies fundamentally, for the better. It is driven by commitment, willingness to change and curiosity.
This new movement is for all of us who, on a scientific basis, take climate change very seriously but are tired of anxious chronicles, shame and doomsday prophecies. Instead, we see the societal changes that are already taking place, driven by digitization, electrification and automation, as a huge opportunity to switch to something better.
As Wired founder Kevin Kelly puts it:
" We should be optimistic, not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our ability to solve them is greater than we thought. "
Between the doomsday sermons and the denial that man affects the earth's climate, I am convinced that there are many people who want to commit to a sustainable and bright future. This is a large and active group that sees the societal changes we must make as something positive and a chance to change for the better .
Anyone who can find a way to engage this group can create and pave the way to a bright future - a new major environmental movement free from shame, guilt and threats of doomsday.

---

Read the debate article "Do not spread the image that it is too late to save the climate" published in Dagens Nyheter . "Equating the risks of climate change with the downfall of humanity is not constructive and lacks scientific support," write prominent researchers, including Thorsten Mauritsen and Deliang Chen, two of the lead authors of the latest report from the UN's IPCC climate panel.
Read more about Per Espen Stokne's book, "What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action" , at Goodreads ."

 

[cosors]

Translate just the headings...
You will understand why I try to get access to the articles. But this is very complicated for a non-Swedish (different currency and pay only with bank transfer and high fees, no social security number etc.). There are 11 articles that interest me and all of them are behind the same paywall.

The top one and NV reads very interesting. But the next three are only about us. It's like letting a child lick the lollipop once and then taking it away
I remind you that this is the new media site about the industrial boom in the north. And we fill the top. It's going to be exciting.

https://kuriren.nu/framtidsfabriken

 

[Semmel]

Here is an article not directly related to Talga:

Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

The GEH zero-emission reactors – each with enough power to fuel more than 200,000 homes - could be deployed by 2030s

www.westerninvestor.com

It puts the cost and output of solar, wind, nuclear and dam in comparison. Result: Solar and Wind are approximately equal in cost.. and 5 times cheaper than nuclear, if you only consider purchase cost. Add a sizable battery and Nuclear is easily 3 times more expensive than solar and wind. THAT is the reason why we have a future and any fossil and nuclear power generation is going to die sooner or later. Its just too expensive. That is also the super cycle justification to invest in battery in general and Talga in particular.

 

[Slymeat]

MT not too happy.

He’s probably onto something too.

https://www.politico.eu/article/how-the-greens-duped-christian-lindner-into-killing-das-auto/