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Or maybe the rest of the world will have to innovate around the solution and no longer need the rare earths.
by mtgx 7y ago
Or maybe the rest of the world will have to innovate around the solution and no longer need the rare earths.
- killjoywashere 7y agopretty sure the roads of technological innovation will, over time, lead to more rare earth usage, not less. Those electron orbitals are just too fancy to walk away from. The Critical Materials Institute may be officially interested in inventing methods that don't require lanthanides, but you can't invent new orbital configurations. I mean, you can try, good luck with that. Let me know how it works out.