Mining Our Way to a Low Carbon Future | Lucy Crane | TEDxTruro

[@xerox782]

Make sure that the big companies allow a normal customer to repair their devices, and we wont have so much waste. My grandpa had stuff that he had to buy once, and never again. Such as car, washing machine, fridge etc. Today anything I buy, works exactly two years and than fails (based on warranty). No way to fix it, cause of 0 service. On top of that, buying new thing is cheaper than try to fix the broken one. So start there, and we might solve 50% of the problem.

[@NorthtoHopeDesert_Hues]

EXACTLY!

[@StudioOAC]

As a graduate of CSM and also current Masters student at the Camborne School of Mines, I am so glad this is being talked about in a TED Talk. This negative perception has to change. Whether people decide to believe it or not, mining is the future for supplying and driving a functioning global economy which is rapidly changing and becoming increasingly demanding. As an aspiring mining geologist, I am proud to say that my future career responsibilities will play a huge pivotal role on the world stage in regards to creating this renewable energy transition and providing materials for new useful technologies in the near future.

[@muskaanboparai2522]

I work in the Mining industry, but never have I ever put it so proudly! Thanks for the inspiring talk! I hope there was a way to actually check where the materials in your phone/ car came from. If the miles on my Skoda Enyaq weren't enough, it's got me thinking on how many miles the materials travelled before they were even put in.

[@tonyblighe5696]

"If it hasn't been grown it's been mined" - that got me thinking. Excellent talk. Thanks.

[@imkurteh]

The only thing I would change about that quote is adding in “...or produced from an oil or gas well.”

[@Geomontage]

@@imkurteh Or switch out mied with 'extracted'.

[@jackzicrosky]

i'm 14 and this is deep

[@SpirallingUpwards]

or recycled???

[@bazlebreeze9938]

I was mesmerized by this talk playing on a TV at the world class Mining Museum in Leadville, CO. So glad I found it on KZbin too and can't wait to share with friends. Bravo to you Lucy. We need to change NIMBY to IMBY !

[@Geomontage]

As a geologist that has worked in the industry and also come across criticism for what I do. This is an excellent talk to clearly justifuy and explain the position. I think the same argument could also be made for shale gas extraction in the UK. We are pioneers of oil and gas and very well regulated yet we think it's fine to import fracked gas from the peruvian amazon. Since the dawn of time we have needed local resources from the rocks to grind grain or flint heads to kill animals. This is exactly the conversation that we need to be having.

[@tonybrumell8385]

Two interesting facts about clean energy.Both from the town of Cobalt in northern Ontario, Canada. Cobalt is/ was a silver mining town for close to 100 years. Interesting to note that 26 mines in the area operated on compressed air produced by the "Ragged Chutes TROMPE " (yup !!! go ahead and google it.)$40,000 cfm at 125 psi.equals around 7 MW.if turned on an air designed Pellton type generator. I believe that this plant can be scaled up or down to provide whats needed. Cobalt itself was mined in the silver ore but sent into the mine waste stream and remains in the tailings and waste rock facilities today. I remember the amazing quantity of pink cobalt bloom in all of our samples.I think that there is great potential in both systems found in Cobalt Ontario.

[@NorthtoHopeDesert_Hues]

Sure, we are all a part of this demand for materials every time we upgrade our phones, TVs and PCs, etc.. ,but, if millions of these items, and more, didn't become obsolete every 2 to 7 years , maybe the necessity to manufacture more and more would at least slow down the demand to mine resources to produce them, besides slow down the mass of waste from them being tossed every time there is a "new and improved" version. There is no reason but greed not to make devices last longer and even make them so the upgrade can be internal so only small components would need replacing instead of the entire item. Also they could be made more durable to reduce breakage. These companies already make more money than they and their children, grandchildren really need in their lifetimes. It's only greed that is behind producing disposable goods made to easily break and if they are not broken, become obsolete in just a few years. Why can't they be made to last 10 or even 20 years with upgrades of components along the way? ....Besides to pack their bottomless purse ..

[@hangingthief]

We need to reduce energy and material throughput and curb the exspansion of extractive industries or there is no hope. We don't need electric cars we need less cares, we need to use solar energy(including plant wind and hydro which are also powered by the sun) outside of electricity generation as was the norm before electric. Solar heating, hydro mills, wind pumps etc. We need an advanced organic economy and degrowth for the war machine pretending to be the engine of prosperity.

[@goldwitchin1231]

Excellent presentation. Thank you!

[@bryancollins9156]

Very well discussed topic! there is also the possibility now that the metals needed for all these renewable technologies can come from polymetallic nodules in the deep ocean. What exciting times we live in.

[@sustainavision]

Very clear and comprehensive explanation. Well done. Thank you.

[@JamesCampbell_JAHC]

Very clear, rational and sensible discussion Lucy, entertaining too. Well done!

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

If we used Thorium instead of Uranium, we would have a huge windfall of rare earth minerals which is comingled with Thorium and is radioactive (less than Uranium but significant enough to have to put it somewhere safe...).

[@dreamingofpalmtrees]

Very well said Lucy!

[@mcmwaba7]

This is eye opening

[@HOOK_NOSE_JEW]

TREES LOVE CARBON

[@gregshafransky1907]

Mining will save the planet. Thank you for your talk.

[@jamesbyrne9312]

I think that's a bit too far but sure it's important. Circular resource use will save the world not mining.

[@HOOK_NOSE_JEW]

Burning coal will save the trees

[@123cez123]

Very well conveyed and informative. Thank you for your presentation :)

[@lomikometalstsxvlmrotclmrm4366]

Well Done Lucy Crane! 100% support.

[@MLFranklin]

At 2:49 "even the mobile phone in your pocket contains 2/3 of the periodic table."

[@rodericksmith2391]

Well argued and well presented Lucy, well done.

[@joshuaporter9778]

Mining Engineer degree here I come.

[@nonsensepoopypants7415]

I'm in my last semester, about to graduate :) One thing I can tell you is that Huge portions of the mining work force is about to retire. Meanwhile, due to the negative image, there's not a lot of interest for new people to enter into mining related degrees. All while the demand for mining is going to skyrocket. High wages and job security will be certain. Also, theres a push for the industry to move towards electrification and automation. Therefore, there's lots of interest for systems control engineers, mechanical, electrical, etc. There's several pathways into mining.

[@drseuss8589]

What if you took the science of electric boiler water heaters (electric kettle), And made a large deployable attache to drop from a plane, containing an impact errupting supply of fast boiling water, to the effect of shattering ice in the artic; for the purpose of, but not limited to: mining, redirecting of currents and re-routing and building of new ice shelves, or drop some kind of water proof intense heat emitting tool to drill down in points to cut off ice, you could rapidly pump out the water in a heated thermal core drill and keep a core free from water and ice, and mine down, or separate blocks of ice if needed. Magnesium feed torch and a heated sump pump, water could be pumped out and built up like sea walls, and frozen soon after it is pumped, formed and built up like concrete or ice hotels.

[@jackzicrosky]

1:15 minecraft.

[@FallingofftheGrid]

Great job here Lucy, fantastic stuff, and well presented!

[@markreed9853]

Can you be my friend, I think most of "mine" are fed up with me talking about EV's, Batteries, and renewables all the time! 😥

[@grodhe2222]

How is the mining industry less worse for the environment than the fashion industry?

[@PJSkinnerAuthor]

Me too

[@ArtwithKrissy]

When I think Mining I think home! Get on Lucy!

[@KarlTykke]

There is significant competition for these materials and their use to address climate change. The highest climate change priority facing the US today is conversion of ground transportation to electricity - the major and growing source of CO2 emissions. Yet we still place significant emphasis on the use of the same materials in wind turbines, which addresses a decreasing contribution, with an alternative strategy. Should we divert lithium/cobalt batteries for use as renewable energy storage, or dedicate their use to ground transportation? The end point is a need to follow the advice of the climate science community and redirect efforts on electricity generation to nuclear power.

[@HOOK_NOSE_JEW]

Don't starve trees of the much needed carbon...electric vehicles should be banned.