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It\u2019s December 29th. You\u2019re listening to the President\u2019s Daily Brief. Your morning intel starts now.\n------\nToday is Part IV of our Series on Dirty Green Energy \u2014 Or as some might say, \u201crenewable energy\u201d or \u201cclean energy.\u201d But always we here at the PDB are asking, \u201cHow clean or green is this stuff - really?\u201d\n\nWell, so far we\u2019ve discovered that solar panels are not clean or green. They use Chinese slave labor and lots of coal energy to create polysilicon.\xa0\n\nAnd we know that wind energy is very dirty too. It\u2019s killing America\u2019s national bird \u2014 the bald eagle \u2014 but the federal government won\u2019t tell us how many. How odd.\xa0\n\nThen of course we have to talk about the batteries that store and distribute the dirty green power that comes from solar and wind.\xa0\n\nWell, yesterday, we talked about the Dirty Minerals that go inside those batteries. And as we now know \u2014 Lithium and Cobalt in particular \u2014 are very dirty for America: they have to be mined in other countries, and in some cases, the people mining are little children, some only six years old.\n\nToday we\u2019re looking at the next, dirty step in the battery process. We gotta explore the refining, the manufacturing, the life, and the ultimate death of these batteries.\n\n\nBut before we get going, let\u2019s remind ourselves of the goal of this Dirty Green Energy Series. It is not to degrade solar or wind or batteries because they deserve some sort of unique or targeted prosecution for their sins. Instead, it\u2019s inform ourselves that Green Energy isn\u2019t green at all, but rather very dirty, and we need to hold that industry to the same standards as we do for traditional forms of energy like oil, gas, and coal.\n------\nPlease remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of the President's Daily Brief.\nEmail: PDB@TheFirstTV.com\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices