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Old 08-09-2017, 04:44 PM   #1
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Default Will Cobalt become the new Blood Diamonds

Cobalt a primary ingredient in batteries used in cellphones and electric cars primarily comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo which supplies 60% of the world supplies.

These mines are hell holes using child laborers and on top of that poisoning the land around it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ell-Earth.html

I'm all for clean energy, but can how can we call it clean energy when we're going to massively up demand and kind of meh about the practices of getting things like rare earths out of the ground.
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