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Massive Norwegian phosphate rock deposit can meet fertilizer, solar, and EV battery demand for 100 years

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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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First all the oil, now all the phosphate.
- Truly the North Star for a resource extraction economy.
Bleed the whole planet of everything YES THIS IS CLEARLY THE WAY, HUMANS
- 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.
  
  Also at least this is used to build solar panels, a definite step up from coal and oil plants
- 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
  
  I agree. Sadly often resource discoveries are used as an argument to postpone progress.
- This is the way
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...
Isn’t it like 10x deeper than typical mines though? Cost/benefit might not be worth it.
I can't be alone in thinking that picture featured a trebuchet?

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