Is $6.33 Copper sustainable?
It doesn't sound very high, but it was under 50 cents a pound back in 2003, climbed inexorably to nearly 4 dollars and then collapsed with everything else back to $1.40 as we passed the peak in conventional oil production. That 1.40 low might have seemed a boon for manufacturers at the time but it was a hundred percent higher then just 5 years before and as low as it was ever going to get this side of another massive financial crash. Today it's over $6, as it recently spiked with silver and Gold.
In a sense Copper is like Oil, like food, it's a total necessity for modern living and if it's price gets too expensive it can't be easily replaced with something else. There is already chatter about solar module makers switching from Silver to copper for the wiring strips that interconnect the cells, with a loss of efficiency naturally. But switching from Copper to abundant Aluminium is just not practical in many applications. Our whole modern system of electronics it getting it up the arse with these high prices. Prices driven by resource depletion.

What is this? Just another modern fad, just another waster of resources. It's a battery pack/inverter stuffed with sketchy electronics and Lipo batteries, doomed for the landfill in 5 years or so. They call them "Solar Generators" , portable power stations. Just another example of BS modern marketing. Call it a battery pack (which is all it is) and you'd lose 3/4 of your sales because that's not "solar" and not a "generator" that gives the impression of endless power
The picture "Advertising" has it all. A happy middle class family on a stormy night making a delicious dinner all thanks to a magic plastic box. Dad doing the work, a little bit of wokeizm thrown in... But forget cooking, it's a cold dinner because that unit would strain to run even a toaster. You're left to assume the lighting is coming from it too I guess? That unit above is the 2000 Watt hour model, US$1000, and If the mains power stays off and the sun isn't shining (assuming you have a big series of solar panels outside to recharge it) it's batteries are going to be flat in a couple of days just running that one fridge. 2000 Wh, that's all it does. I have a Honda 2000W petrol generator and it will do that in the first hour of operation, and then keep pumping out the power, hour after hour, day after day.
Are 'solar generators' Stupid? Well the name is certainly stupid, a Lie. But they have their uses, camping being one, perhaps powering light electrical power tools in the field for a day, and of course as the imagery above suggests, keeping your fridge running in a short blackout. But beyond that they are useless, a very expensive toy designed for stupid people, soft people, people who feel insecure running a real generator, people who can't go camping without a hairdryer and whatnot. You plug a kettle into that thing and watch it freak out

It's just another example of the idea that we can run the world without oil and coal. A small example, but the message is clear, don't worry about the future, we have it all sorted out, just relax and continue consuming the latest technology.

And never forget, women are smarter, stronger, and better in every way than mere men.

We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.