On one hand losing the ability to manufacture aluminum is bad news for any economic activity that requires the use of aluminum. However, on the other hand, this politically guided ‘new world’ we are going toward doesn’t need aluminum, because you cannot eat it.
Predictably 2023 is going to be the beginning of several ‘Build Back Better’ decades where the ownership of material things disappears. When your wages are focused on sustaining yourself with housing, food and energy, all of those other purchases become mere indulgences.
Sustainable life in equity with the needs of the planet, means returning to the era when you received an orange or a piece of chocolate as a Christmas gift, and you are thankful. Cars, appliances, phones or other types of luxury durable goods are indulgences which become out of reach for the worker class. Thus, removing smelters, iron works, factories and other heavy industrial machines only makes sense.
As meager wage earnings are focused on purchases to sustain life, there is little room for indulgences. As the World Economic Forum has stated, we will own nothing and we will be happy. Happiness experiences will be provided and the virtual metaverse will fill our needs.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two more European aluminium smelters are powering down as the region’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating.
Slovenia’s Talum will reduce output to just a fifth of capacity and Alcoa (AA.N) will curtail one line at its Lista plant in Norway.
Close to 1 million tonnes of European primary aluminum capacity is now offline and more may follow as a notoriously power-hungry sector struggles to cope with soaring energy costs. (read more)
Again, I return to the imagery surrounding our foundational questions, and hopefully things are starting to make sense.
“Do not worry yourselves, you plebes.
I your lord and Master will give a nice cot with 4 concrete walls.
You will eat the bugs on a stick while taking the wonderful transportation we provide you, and if your very lucky you will get to go on a game show and maybe win one of our wonderful prizes.”
Signed the powers that be!!!
Pray “the powers that be” are soon curtailed everywhere.
Reader Player One – the Stacks!!!
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I was thinking of the extreme classism in 21st century San Francisco depicted in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Great show):
What’s scary is the episode, “Past Tense,” debuted in the 90s. This is one time I wish sci-fi creators were wrong about America’s future.
Notice 2 0f the 86,000,000 IRS thugs with shotguns @1:36
“Sanctuary District” = hell on earth.
Once those smelters are closed it is just not flip a switch and they are back online up and running…
It is a process to get them working again. Takes awhile….
They will never start backup you havent figured that out yet???
And find the skilled operators to man the lines again. Machines have on off switches but once you lose the operators they are gone for ever.
The Rust Belt comes to mind!
Aluminum production needs huge amounts of electricity in the “reduction” step, which separates pure aluminum from its extremely strong chemical bond to oxygen. You literally have to bathe aluminum oxide in an electrical bath. Which is why recycling aluminum has always been important .. and even more so now
One of the most likely things to *consume* aluminum, is the “aluminum/air” battery. All that energy to pull the Al off the O, comes right back when you put them back together. Al/air batteries are lighter weight, and have more power density that just about any other kind of battery, but you’re not going to recharge them.
This might be what eventually makes scrap aluminum hard to find.
Too many beer drinkers, no?
Which is also why major aluminum reduction plants were built near hydroelectric power sources: Cheap, clean reliable power. See Fontana Dam and Alcoa’s plant in nearby Tennessee. See the locations of many of Quebec’s aluminum reduction plants. All near hydro power facilities.
“….imagery surrounding our foundational questions, and hopefully things are starting to make sense.”
They make sense, from a left-wing, globalist worldly perspective. These images are their objectves.
But what is represented by those images makes no sense from a spiritually-informed perspective. Globalist elites, unfortunately for them, lack the latter perspective…to their ultimate detriment and destruction.
When Trump said that 60,000 factories (not a typo) had left America since the 80’s, it was a wake-up call. Remember when we were exporting whole factories to China? Well, those exported factories no longer need any energy in America. Nor do they need any educated, experienced workers.
Looks like Europe is heading our way.
the chinks got plenty of aluminum for sale. they can go through Canada if the tariffs are still up, like they did before.
Old Joe and his flunkies destroying America one job at a time.
quite a thread you got goin’ here Sundance…
I am so thankful to live outside of the city, in the hovel where only people of no consequence celebrate God and life.
Come on over any time, you’re always welcome here.
Haven’t heard that China is shutting down any industry because of energy shortages and price increases.
(The bigger picture…)
When the quality of life starts sinking fast how do these politicos expect to get away with this? You think people aren’t going to follow a different path?
By the time enough people realize, it may be too late. Shutdowns of complex systems are no joke.
They make people desperate, then dependant, then compliant.
Think “basic” in The Expanse or the above DS9 referance, or the Hunger Games. Etc
Macron has the country right where he wants it. Such a Klaus “good boy”.
I’m saving my beer/pop cans. 10 cents to return them now. maybe $1 a can in six months.
The only piece of stain glass I have never liked.
Regressing 200 years is now considered progress. Wow, we sure have come a long way.
But your buggy-whips will be USB 4.0 Enhanced!
Does anyone in California know that plastics are petroleum based? Time for glass jars and wax paper?
I’m not currently in CA, but used to live there & through Kunstler’s “The Long Emergency” I learned that plastics are petroleum derivatives, so is a whole lotta other products. He had quite a lit in the book, which was quite a wake-up call for me & that list was another. I kept dropping my jaw as I read it…
“Cars, appliances, phones or other types of luxury durable goods are indulgences which become out of reach for the worker class.”
Nope, the cell phone is the key to the entire planetary slavery scheme. Without the ability to track, monitor and control people via the cell phone, the entire NWO collapses.
Or to say it another way, if the hopelessly addicted would just set their phones down slowly and walk away, the nightmare would end, and the world would be saved from this totalitarianism.
But clearly no one is experiencing nearly enough pain yet to even consider giving up their voluntarily owned (and paid for!) personal tracking and enslavement device.
Never leave home without it:
In the future, access-limited “smart” phones will be both free and required, while only the elites will have true internet access (if that exists at all). Of course an implant at birth will be even easier to implement and be required for a birth certificate. We’re almost there.
No one is coming to our rescue.
frightening. 90% of what i design and build at work is made from aluminum. certain sheet sizes in 1/8″, .08 and .09 thickness are becoming hard to find. suppliers are running out of some extrusions.
Hey yeah. That’s what we need. DOOM AND GLOOM. META will become our life, meaning that company will control the world, and Orwell Was right? Just what we need, as much negative spin as possible. Well done. You should be writing for CNN.
Reality.
If you believe it is doom and gloom you are right.
Doom and gloom are the reality “they” have planned for us.
Plan accordingly.
Yeah…. let’s just censor the truth that makes us feel bad… go for it.
For mine, I want the truth, the whole truth, even it’s darkest, emotion deading, heart hardening parts.
You can’t go *anywhere* if you can’t accept where you are.
“The quality of your life is governed by the rapidity with which you can *choose* what’s there.”
Aluminum bus bar is a foundational component in electrical transmission and switchgear. How, pray tell, will we build the massive new power distribution networks needed for EVs without bus bar?
Answer: We won’t. The alternative, copper bus bar, is more costly and not exactly plentiful.
Go green = go without. But we will come to enjoy ambient temperature extremes as we sit in the dark.
My mom always told us at Christmas that her grandfather in England got an orange for Christmas and was happy.
My great grandmother and grandfather came here by boat. Had very little. No food on the boat. Bring your own. They became friends with one family and decided to share their food. Of course, they ate my family’s food first and then split and hid on the boat somewhere.
I the 1920s my grandfather gave his life savings to a broker to buy stocks. The broker took the money and disappeared. Then the family got hit with the depression and had very little.
Beware of scammers. Probably a lot of scammers out there soon especially with most laws disappearing.
I’ve been saying it since the beginning of the scamdemic, we are on our own. Good luck. As Van Gogh said, there is peace in the middle of a storm. May it be well with your soul.
Germany produces 22% of it’s gas. Nobody mentions they stopped fracking 3-4 years ago.
They can enhance production with fracking and not drilling.