And if people knew how reliant we are on f*cking China for our grid components that were previously manufactured in the United States...
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The noun, not the adjective.
(But yeah, we outsourced so many things we even outsourced shooting ourselves in the foot.)
From Ian Bremmer’s G-Zero media yesterday:
China now controls more than 80 percent of the world's supply of something that surrounds you all day, every day. And, according to the Financial Times[paywall], Beijing is threatening to cut the supply of that thing to the US. What are we talking about? Rare earths metals.
China takes a “rare” swipe at the US
China is considering cutting off the export of rare earths to the US. What are they, and why does this matter for everything from fighter jets to the device you're reading on right now?
www.gzeromedia.com
From Ian Bremmer’s G-Zero media yesterday:
China now controls more than 80 percent of the world's supply of something that surrounds you all day, every day. And, according to the Financial Times[paywall], Beijing is threatening to cut the supply of that thing to the US. What are we talking about? Rare earths metals.
China takes a “rare” swipe at the US
China is considering cutting off the export of rare earths to the US. What are they, and why does this matter for everything from fighter jets to the device you're reading on right now?
Asteroids, here we come. Elon, get building.
The honest answer is we need to do a better job of recycling - and I’m not talking about individual people putting cans and bottles in the trash. Huge machines to go back through our biggest landfills to ‘mine’ for molecules of interest. You’d find tons of gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, and of course rare earth elements.
Google on rare earth minerals and ocean floor. A whole new industry is getting ready to fire up.
But that's where the hybrid underwater-aerospace craft (huac) are!!1!!1!?! ?
Rare earth elements are not that rare, but they are very environmentally messy to refine which is why the U.S. handed that off to China which has little to no environmental regulation and low labor costs.China takes a “rare” swipe at the US
China is considering cutting off the export of rare earths to the US. What are they, and why does this matter for everything from fighter jets to the device you're reading on right now?
It just so happens that China has a near-monopoly on the business of refining these metals for use in manufacturing
Rare earth elements aren’t the secret weapon China thinks they are
Despite the name, rare earths just aren’t that rare
www.theverge.com
I just want to celebrate...Rare earth elements are not that rare, but they are very environmentally messy to refine which is why the U.S. handed that off to China which has little to no environmental regulation and low labor costs.
Rare earth elements aren’t the secret weapon China thinks they are
Despite the name, rare earths just aren’t that rare
exNavyOffRec
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I doubt that will get very far, too many environmentalist complain about the damage to the Oceans.
As much as we drill for hydrocarbons in the ocean?
exNavyOffRec
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I guess it really depends how invasive the process is, however I see things getting harder to harvest out of the oceans, not easier.
Not sure the trade offs between drilling and scraping the ocean floor. Then again no one seems to mind giant lithium mines and bird chopping windmills so maybe the greenies won’t care