which are 17 minerals vital in producing things you use every day, and which are so polluting to produce no one else wants to do so...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/12...y-china-trade/
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which are 17 minerals vital in producing things you use every day, and which are so polluting to produce no one else wants to do so...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/12...y-china-trade/
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Honda is introducing a work-around to get away from the gouging of the Cjinese with rare-earth metals used in electric vehicles —
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars...r-without-hea/
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Interprising young scientists at Rutgers have devised a plan to extract some of the minerals that the Chinese have hitherto obtained as their monopoly with the vexing reality of a possible stranglehold on vital resources for the modern world.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...arth-elements/
I had posted on discovery of vast resources of the metals on the deep ocean floor previously in the thread below, but this possible new process of plentiful synthetic phosphogypsum would be much more accessible.
http://www.crackerbarrelphilosophers...ght=rare+earth
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This is not a recent issue.
It is also the proper place for governments to develop and execute strategic plans. We would be well served to spend time and energy in those directions rather than the childish "goals" that currently occupy our time and talents.
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ECO wackos won't let us cut down even dead trees, so will they lets us dig anything?
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Thanks for posting this WJ I too think this is an important factor to keep an eye on. I wouldn't be dismissive about it at all.
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Currently the Chinese have a wire tied around our technological nuts and could jerk it at any time.
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