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Can Old Lime Bikes and Hard Disks Counter China's Rare-Earth Chokehold?
- carride 8mo ago> * Globally, less than 1% of the rare-earth metals in expired technology gets recycled, according to a report published last year by the United Nations. That is because separating the magnets from the other materials and parts they are embedded in hasn’t been cost-effective—especially when access to low-cost products from China hasn’t been a worry. *
- litbear2022 8mo ago> The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware, because they ran out of semiconductors. > Russia's industry is in tatters and its economy on life-support. > This is the price for Putin's trail of death and destruction. LMAO - https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1571454007683428352?lang=en https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1571454007683428352?lang=... - https://time.com/6226484/russia-appliance-imports-weapons/ https://time.com/6226484/russia-appliance-imports-weapons/ - https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/01/20/is-russia-really-buying-home-appliances-to-harvest-computer-chips-for-ukraine-bound-weapons-systems/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/01/20/is-russia...