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The Pentagon’s growing technological prowess thanks to rare earths caught Beijing off guard, encouraging China to double down on rare earths research. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made the prescient observation in the 1980s, “The Middle East has oil. China has rare earths,” and encouraged his country to further exploit this economic advantage.
— Dec 02, 2024 06:13AM
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Lithium, copper, and other metals in lithium-ion batteries can be reused if they can be removed from a battery and recycled. Lithium doesn’t lose its ability to hold a charge just because it’s been sitting in a battery for twenty years. What many countries were missing, though, was the infrastructure to accomplish that goal.
— Dec 05, 2024 06:04AM
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In Chile, the world’s largest copper producer and second-largest lithium producer, 65 percent of the country’s water is used by its mining sector alone.
— Nov 27, 2024 11:31PM
