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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by benj111 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:46PM (#32882358)
>Mining tech is essentially the same since ever, we just have transferred some physical efforts to machines

You could say that about literally anything

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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by kkfx on Sunday September 18, 2022 @10:27AM (#32887852)
Not really: ICEs for instance have enormously reduced their pollution, sure they can't be "green" but a modern European diesel engine is an order of magnitude less pollutant than one from just 30 years ago.

Some energivore process in various industries have evolved to demand far less energy, cement is a good example using the EMC process [1] same others have not evolved, not because they are evil but because we do not found anything better to evolve; mining is one of them.

[1] see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_modified_cement

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