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Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling
- lightedman 3mo agoAs someone that just got done doing a legal dig in a national park (inholding from the 1800s owned by a mining company, preparing to trade that land to the park for another mineral patent elsewhere) before you think of recycling you should perhaps think of developing your own domestic supply to recycle in the first place. And maybe introduce some technological improvements, too. Like portable millsites and leach pads so you don't fuck up the landscape with dead buildings and environmental waste. And maybe look into some chemical process improvements, like using DMSO instead of cyanide for leaching gold. Oh, and look into using Z-pinching for mining so we don't need explosives, we just need capacitors and metal tubes and drills to make precision tunnels to grab ore and leave more of the land intact.
- tencentshill 3mo agoIf the government want to pay for my electronic scrap, great! I've got a box of 2nd-gen Intel CPUs, bidding starts at $3000.
- seydor 3mo agoWhy is everyone preparing for war so hard
- kingkawn 3mo agoCuz they don’t believe in anything else anymore except violence
- goalieca 3mo agoBecause China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adversarial and has a huge fraction of the minerals under their control that this article is posting about. I think sovereignty is a good thing. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.
- ta20240528 3mo ago[flagged]
- Veliladon 3mo agoStart by banning disposable vapes. The sheer waste of lithium from those fucking devices is insane in 2026. We need every scrap of it we can get!
- cinntaile 3mo agoIts market value is clearly not high enough or they wouldn't use it in disposable vapes.
- AngryData 3mo agoI think the problem is more that non disposable vapes are illegal and unavailable to most people.
- RazorBucksICO 3mo ago[flagged]
- AnimalMuppet 3mo agoIn the office? Only if their office has a separate air supply. They should be able to do what they want. They should not be able to affect me by what they want. Selfish people need to step aside.
- AuthAuth 3mo agoOk if they pay extra tax for the extra health costs they will incur.
- therealpygon 3mo ago95% come from China? Why ban importing the materials you desire, which are not going to magically be cheaper by banning them, instead of providing services to simply and easily recycle them?
- _spduchamp 3mo agoCollection and recycling these safely at scale seems mind boggling difficult. Various batteries, electronics, resin encrusted elements, oils, plastics, and mouthy guckiness. I would love to see how this process works. Banning them seems to be the most economic and safest solution.
- 1970-01-01 3mo agoMeta had the right idea of adding older RAM to their existing servers instead of just buying more. Shame how nobody really noticed. Reduce, REUSE, recycle is the correct order and what we should be doing. https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-is-reusing-old-ddr4-ram-in-its-servers-instead-of-buying-new-hardware/ https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-is-reusing-old-ddr4-ram-in-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778956
- maxglute 3mo agoTFW "near term potential" F35s will get their radars.
- krunger 3mo ago[dead]