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Yes your example is extremely niche. It only works where you are going to work on one specific application for many years in the same place. It doesn't generalise to building a house, a supermarket or a road. It doesn't generalise to ploughing the Mid-West.

Even in your example it only works if you are taking all of the material to one destination, like an ore refinery. If it was road stone, the rock would get loaded onto a diesel truck for the final part of the journey. So again, the tractor, the excavator on a job site, the lorry, will all stay on diesel or hydrogen ICE



> Yes your example is extremely niche

No. It isn't.

Mining related excation energy requirements are a major component of the global transport related energy demand.

So much earth is moved on an annual basis that the earth's axis alters from the mass balance change.

Mining excavation and artisinal water extraction are the two primary human activities that account for the bulk of these mass changes.

Simply being unaware of the scale of tonnages moved globally on an annual basis via mining related earth moving equipment doesn't make it niche.

This might interest you: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met... although you can find similar data scattered across other presenters.




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