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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Eric who wrote (76096)4/13/2017 10:43:45 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
I guess there haven't been any technological advances in mining for the things solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries are made of.

All those things are made from stuff that comes out of the ground.

When it comes to drilling for oil and gas, directional drilling is a big boon. You can drill down and then sideways to follow a hydrocarbon bearing strata. Visualize your desktop and imagine it displaced 10,000 feet underground and a half mile away from where you sit. Drillers can put a drill bit right through that imaginary target.

When it comes uranium, you can drill into uranium bearing rock, pump a charged solution into it through injection wells which then can be tapped via production wells. Pump the solution to a plant where the uranium is stripped out and the solution is pumped back for reuse. Uranium extracted from rock without no disturbance other than the boreholes of the injection and production wells.
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