Hydrogen economy ‘incredibly exciting opportunity’, says Minerals Council’s Baxter

Hydrogen economy ‘incredibly exciting opportunity’, says Minerals Council’s Baxter: Mobility in mining is perfectly suited to kickstarting the domestic hydrogen adoption process, according to Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter, who drew attention during the PGMs Industry Day conference to several mining companies that had already played a leadership role in the hydrogen field. All the options pointed to the hydrogen economy being an “incredibly exciting opportunity” for the mining industry to continue on its journey towards:

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Mantashe rallies coal producers to save industry despite growing climate change concerns

Mantashe rallies coal producers to save industry despite growing climate change concerns: Despite South Africa’s significant coal resources, there are “binding constraints” impacting on the future growth of the coal industry – an issue Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says is the coal mining industry’s issue to solve. Speaking at the Coal Colloquium, held at the Council for Geoscience in Pretoria on February 1, he rallied coal producers to band together in tackling constraints within the coal value chain; which, if left unattended, “will result in the stagnation and ultimately the shrinking of the coal industry”.

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Better Prospects likely in 2022

Rather a bold statement I know.

 First there seem to be a number of pills issued by the major manufacturers such as Pfizer, Astro Zeneca that actually work against all Covid strains which could see it turned into a minor influenza. Many more people would rather take the pill than an injection. The pill works in a different way to the injection as it breaks the inner core down and then it cannot reproduce as I understand it. It is said to be 90% plus effective.

 Second war against the Soviet and China does seem so imminent at this time. Each seems to be maneuvering to avoid such a conflict with the West ,but the brinkmanship they display with Ukraine by Russia and  the South China Sea by China can have unfortunate consequences. Lets hope futher talks will at least restore the uneasy calm the world has known for the last decade!

 Third minerals and metals we have in abundance here in Southern Africa  prices are always likely to stabilise as there will always be a demand to meet the needs of the world.

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Year end events

 2021 has been a very trying year all round ! its not quite finished yet! How ever

 now is the time to ask ,what of the future?

Business wise the effects of covid sent the market into a downward spiral,the

 followed by an almost rapid recovery. Polititians of course world wide did not get it

 right and only seemed interested in saving their own skins!

Lookiing forward it seems as if a recovery might be more permanent. China has

 been flexing its muscles of late, seen the weakness of

 the United States led by a

 geriatric leader who is really out tof touch  with reality

 and is a threat to Taiwan

 also  to ,Hong Kong and is treating their minorities badly with rumours of

 ethnic cleansing.Also claims to the mineral rich South China Sea ,ignoring other

 nations long term standings.As well as its borders with India.

At the same time Russia seems determned to reclaim its borders and even enlarge

 its size and if China enters a war might see an opportunistic opportunity to do just

 that.

China is likely to hold back till after the winter Olympics ,before making sudden moves.

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Seriously Trending --Fuel cells !

 BOB OLIVER a Canadian expert on climate control said "There is no pathway to

 zero carbon inthe atmosphere that does not include fuel cells !"

He also mentioned at a climate conference that there 40,000 forklifts in North America and 10,000 heavy transport vehicles that already run on the fuel cell technology!

By the way he personally drives a HYUNDAI  NEXO CAR  that runs on fuel cells. The Canadian and US governments have helped set up filling stations through out their respective countries by way of subsidies etc. As the Southern African region is the main producer of the platinum group metals ,we should o the same. This is where ordinary citizens could get involved. Ask your local parliament representive what they are going to do about  helping garages to supply fuel cell pumps!

Fuel cells are produced by running HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS OVER THE PLATINUM PROTON MEMBRANE.

GREEN HYDROGEN is generated with the help of platium and iridium.

UNLIKE BATTERIES hydrogen fuel cells never run out!

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Then huge windmills also are scattered all over the country side spoiling the veiw in beautiful areas.

Intesresting to note that only about 4 % of the energy needed is at present to produce these awful tools come from windmill and solar power sources at present! Just think what a mess it would be to power up to the amount needed to actually produce all power needed by our over populated world.

The first option that is good is of course nuclear fuel,which also comes with its own dangers.These can be mitigated by limiting the amount and good placing. Not thought of yet is placing these underwater in the sea at stable sites.

Coal has done its thing by improving methods that are cleaner and require less water for cooling.

A non polluting wonderful invention is of course fuel cells for large stationary power stations which are feasible and several have already been built. Fuel cells can also be used for vehicles . Veiw many of my previous posts.

Hydro power has been used for many years so far. Not thought of yet is placing some  down river beneath an existing scheme where its not intrusive.

France has generators that use the tides at strategic locations. 

Talked about but not yet used is of course using the natural rivers in the oceans,such as the gulf stream.

Finally a no,no is lithium batteries which generally use spodium a rare earth mineral. Production of lithium batteries uses a great deal of electricity produced by conventional means.