Conor Gallagher
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So that fingerprint would not be definitive.
Exactly.
And I know that a documentary maker, Caelan Robertson.
I've seen him online, yeah.
Yeah, has gotten great traction with this.
He actually got a sample of the material.
He actually gave me some of it as well.
And he's going to give it to the Ukrainian authorities to see if they can do something.
I'd be surprised if they can do something.
But who knows?
Who knows?
Yeah, and also you want to be incredibly lucky to get the right piece of battlefield debris to match, you know, that happened to come from this supply chain.
So it's an incredibly energy-intensive process, turning bauxite into alumina.
So they built their own power plant some years ago, and that power plant uses a huge amount of energy.
In fact, Ireland uses up to 11% of Ireland's gas supply every day.
My goodness.
Yeah, yeah.
But I suppose in fairness, it actually contributes back to the grid because the process of turning bauxite into alumina actually gives off a huge amount of heat that's used to drive turbines and that actually feeds power back into the grid.
Some estimates up to 200,000 homes if it was running at full power.
So that supplies some power to the grid, but it's also crucial as a reserve, a backup if there was a surge or an emergency, if another plant went down.