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"Every politician, asset manager, and corporate executive loves to talk about the energy transition like it’s a smooth, linear roadmap. But the math, the infrastructure, and the capital deployment tell an entirely different story. We are running headfirst into a massive systemic shock—and almost no one is prepared for what’s coming." Minerals, not money, may be the binding constraint on the energy transition. Simon Michaux on critical raw materials, the storage gap under wind and solar, and his case for thorium and iron powder. The narrative around the global energy transition is full of optimistic promises, but the physical, financial, and geopolitical realities paint a far more complex picture. In this deep dive, Robert Rubinstein cuts through the noise to examine the structural bottlenecks, capital misallocations, and systemic risks that the industry is actively ignoring. This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein. Michaux is a mining engineer who spent 18 years researching how rock is crushed and ground, then went to Brussels expecting to find a feasibility study for phasing out fossil fuels and found none. His first argument is that the numbers underneath the green transition were never run at engineering scale. His second is that the buffer storage question is the blind spot: most models cost five to seven hours of backup, and he argues replacing gas requires thinking in weeks. His third is that this is fixable, and he names three technologies he thinks can do it. Simon Michaux is a mining engineer with a PhD in blasting. He spent 18 years at the University of Queensland's mining research wing, studied industrial recycling in Belgium, and is an associate professor at the Geological Survey of Finland. His thousand-page assessment of the raw materials required to replace fossil fuels is free to download. WHAT'S COVERED - Why he says he is neither pro fossil fuel nor anti climate, and who throws rocks at him - Sitting in Brussels circular economy meetings and finding no hard numbers after a decade - Being told, repeatedly, that officials are encouraged not to say anything negative - Wind turbine blades with no recycling route, and the composite waste plume nobody has costed - Why grid electronics cannot tolerate variable supply, and what a brown-out does - The seasonal problem: solar underperforms for months, not hours Michaux's mineral scarcity conclusions are contested by other researchers. This is his case, argued in full. Time Stamps 0:00 - The Clean Energy Fantasy vs. Hard Reality 01:50 - The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Bottleneck 04:35 - Why Capital Markets Are Miscalculating the Risk 08:10 - Critical Minerals & The New Geopolitical Map 11:45 - What a Realistic Transition Actually Requires 15:20 - The Strategic Imperative for Investors & Leaders 📌 Subscribe to TBLI Radical Truth for unfiltered, deep-dive discussions with sustainable finance thought leaders challenging the conventional narratives around impact and the future of finance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDBhRVM93uUnAAtqOMIz_yg?sub_confirmation=1 EXTRACTION How business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system. If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, Extraction takes that investigation much further. Follow its progress in the free Radical Truth Discussion Network: https://tblicircle.com/share/Lnu4hDm8ayILGevs?utm_source=manual RELATED EPISODES - Martin Rich, Future-Fit Foundation, on what ESG was actually built to measure. - Mark van Baal, Follow This, on whether shareholders can force big oil to change. MORE ON SIMON MICHAUX - Reports and the thousand-page assessment: https://www.simonmichaux.com/reports - Simon Michaux on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-michaux-3016a7a/ TBLI GROUP - https://www.tbligroup.com - Robert Rubinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ #EnergyTransition #CriticalMinerals #Mining #Thorium #RenewableEnergy #EnergyStorage #CircularEconomy #NuclearEnergy #ClimateTech #RawMaterials #SimonMichaux #TBLIRadicalTruth Recorded in 2024.

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