EROEI -- looking at the true energy cost of using #renewables

If there is any plan to cease using fossil fuels, all of these backup electricity providers, including nuclear, will disappear. (Nuclear also depends on fossil fuels.) Renewables will need to stand on their own. This is when the intermittency problem will become overwhelming. Fossil fuels can be stored relatively inexpensively; electricity storage costs are huge. They include both the cost of the storage system and the loss of energy that takes place when storage is used.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2019/10/24/how-renewable-energy-models-can-produce-misleading-indications/ 

Exploited lithium miners fighting back

Indigenous communities of the Council of Atacama Peoples block world's no.2 producer of lithium SQM in #Chile. Ending extractivism in IPs' territories means fighting for free public transport & active travel for all rather than electric cars for the few. https://t.co/LBZQJzz2xJ

— Tom Younger (@tomayounger) October 27, 2019