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Massive Norwegian phosphate rock deposit can meet fertilizer, solar, and EV battery demand for 100 years (www.techspot.com)

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Norwegian mining company Norge Mining said the 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock was uncovered in the southwest of Norway, where it sits alongside other minerals such...

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[-] rockstarpirate@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

First all the oil, now all the phosphate.

[-] PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Truly the North Star for a resource extraction economy.

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Bleed the whole planet of everything YES THIS IS CLEARLY THE WAY, HUMANS

[-] Hank@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only way that would be avoided were if we kill the majority of the human population and the rest agrees to live in caves and shit in holes.

At least this takes off pressure on other resources.

[-] Neeps@feddit.online 6 points 1 year ago

Also at least this is used to build solar panels, a definite step up from coal and oil plants

[-] dub@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I do think that we need to move towards renewable energy and nuclear but this is good news for the short term since we were almost 100% reliant on China to get battery resources.

While the goal would be to move things over quickly, this is decent news for now

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. Sadly often resource discoveries are used as an argument to postpone progress.

[-] Toto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] Fjern@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What kind of weird AI/upscaling tech or whatever did they use for that map?

The letters are all trippy. At first look it looks like letters from the alphabet, but zoom in and see that they are only strange symbols.. imitating letters!

Edit.. When I think of it, the letters do really look like what the AI image generators did when we asked then to create a sign or something with words in it...

[-] Bonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Isn’t it like 10x deeper than typical mines though? Cost/benefit might not be worth it.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I can't be alone in thinking that picture featured a trebuchet?

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