I always find these supply chain questions fascinating. On the one hand, this is something the free market will resolve in its own way. As copper becomes more scarce, prices increase making it more profitable to search for new mines and expand existing ones, as well as invest in technologies to better recycle copper from used goods. Alternatively, research could potentially find viable alternatives to copper for many of its applications. At the same time, it brings a lot of short term uncertainties that could cause some serious disruptions to the many industries that rely on copper. Difficult issue to tackle for sure.
BernieMeinhoffGang on
just steal some from a construction site lmao
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has maintained an “administrative injunction” against a massive copper mine approved by Congress in 2014, without any finding whatsoever that the project is illegal and after the plaintiffs lost in the Ninth Circuit en banc, got denied cert., and lost again in a district court.
Pure insanity.
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I do not believe for a split second that AI is something that actually moves the copper market.
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I always find these supply chain questions fascinating. On the one hand, this is something the free market will resolve in its own way. As copper becomes more scarce, prices increase making it more profitable to search for new mines and expand existing ones, as well as invest in technologies to better recycle copper from used goods. Alternatively, research could potentially find viable alternatives to copper for many of its applications. At the same time, it brings a lot of short term uncertainties that could cause some serious disruptions to the many industries that rely on copper. Difficult issue to tackle for sure.
just steal some from a construction site lmao
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has maintained an “administrative injunction” against a massive copper mine approved by Congress in 2014, without any finding whatsoever that the project is illegal and after the plaintiffs lost in the Ninth Circuit en banc, got denied cert., and lost again in a district court.
Pure insanity.
I do not believe for a split second that AI is something that actually moves the copper market.