Click to view the video (montage and narration by Alan Cox).
"In German folklore a 'kobold' was a deadly sprite that inhabited mines and could live inside rock. Hunched and ugly, it warned off human busybodies."
I was reminded of ‘Cobalt Blues’ this morning by Louise Erdrich’s op-ed “Not Just Another Pipeline” about “a tar sands climate bomb” now under construction in Minnesota and racing “to lock in pipeline infrastructure” before it can be stopped.
And for the moment Cobalt and Coltan demand wrecking havoc in Congo so that “clean” electric vehicles can replace carbon combustion engines. Internet raping planet in relentless drive for more energy. Bitcoin mining same demand as that of hundreds of millions people. I phones are killer phones.
thnx for the Coltan reminder, per:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan_mining_and_ethics