Financial-Employ5634 t1_j8jzwpy wrote on February 14, 2023 at 9:34 PM

Reply to comment by nerfyies in EU approves 2035 ban on new fossil fuel car sales by chrisdh79

Your missing a key point here, when you say mining your talking about active mines. There aren’t enough active mines to begin with. Do you know how long it takes to get a new mine approved, get the exploration done to see if it’s even a feasible site, and then begin the actual mining? 15 years.

ben7337 t1_j8ky4gp wrote on February 15, 2023 at 1:43 AM

So the current mines are at 100% theoretical capacity and there's no more places in the globe that could be used to open new mines, and you're saying in spite of the constantly growing demand over the last couple decades, nations across the globe haven't been looking for economical sources to open new mines? I don't know much about the industry, but that sounds pretty unlikely to me, though besides child labor horrors, the only info I can find on new mines is that the US just opened it's first one in 2022