{"id":28288,"date":"2012-06-14T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T01:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/theres-gold-in-them-thar-artificial-hills.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T01:18:30","slug":"theres-gold-in-them-thar-artificial-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/theres-gold-in-them-thar-artificial-hills.html","title":{"rendered":"There&#39;s Gold in Them Thar Artificial Hills!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, actually aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>Makes a lot of sense, of course, but it still feels &#8230; vaguely post-apocalyptic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105103058358743760661'>Gideon Rosenblatt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Aluminum Expert says it\u2019s time to start mining New Jersey<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since the dawn of the industrial revolution the world\u2019s ore deposits have depleted to dangerously low levels and the industrial thirst for aluminum has increased. China accounts for 40% of the world\u2019s aluminum use, and is projected to increase its demand by 8-10% annually over the next 5 years, according to Novelis Inc., the world\u2019s largest consumer of aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>So where will the world get its supply? \u201cNew Jersey!\u201d\u00a0Dr. Subodh Das\u00a0says with a smile.\u00a0 Dr. Das\u2019s calculations show that it is possible to recover 4.5 million metric tons per year from urban mines, many of which are located just outside of major US cities.<\/p>\n<p><b>More:<\/b> \u27bd\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgi.edu\/changing-business\/aluminum-expert-says-its-time-to-start-mining-new-jersey\/\" >http:\/\/www.bgi.edu\/changing-business\/aluminum-expert-says-its-time-to-start-mining-new-jersey\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-XxigDHOX0Wc\/T9p84h3VNXI\/AAAAAAAAfw4\/lud2x7mRco0\/s0-d\/urban%2Bmining.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-XxigDHOX0Wc\/T9p84h3VNXI\/AAAAAAAAfw4\/lud2x7mRco0\/s0-d\/urban%2Bmining.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/LpF56Bi3u15' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, actually aluminum. Makes a lot of sense, of course, but it still feels &#8230; vaguely post-apocalyptic. Reshared post from +Gideon Rosenblatt Aluminum Expert says it\u2019s time to start mining New Jersey Since the dawn of the industrial revolution the world\u2019s ore deposits have depleted to dangerously low levels and the industrial thirst for aluminum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/theres-gold-in-them-thar-artificial-hills.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#39;s Gold in Them Thar Artificial Hills!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48619,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/bhopal-thirty-years-later.html","url_meta":{"origin":28288,"position":0},"title":"Bhopal: Thirty Years Later","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Dec-14 12:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Three decades ago, the world's worst industrial disaster occurred in Bhopal, India, at a Union Carbide plant.But remember, kids -- industrial safety and inspections and regulations are job killers. 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