It's used for computer chip manufacturing and the reason they want it from Ukraine is that China blocked us from getting it from them due to Trump's tariffs. China is the world's largest supplier of rare earth minerals.
I guess both Canada and Greenland have a fair amount as well. I know the chip Mfgs need them, but don't the really high-speed computers with specialized chips require the rare earths as well for complex AI units.
Dysprosium, cerium, gallium, europium, gadolinium, lanthanum, praseodymium, scandium, terbium, and yttrium are crucial components in semiconductor manufacturing which includes GPUs and other AI chips. Neodymium is used in other high-tech components for things like wind turbines.
👋also for the permanent magnets etc in those drones and robots that are the main way wars are starting to be fought and industries mechanised and homes vacummed.. (they're in robovacs etc), in touchscreens, etc.
I was reading that mining these rare earths is very inefficient and can cause significant water pollution issues. Even if your country has these rare earths you may not make much money on them and you risk serious water pollution. They are, it seems a blessing and a curse.
The Chinese should be willing to sell to Musk whatever he wants. He has a huge Tesla Mfg there and is planning another there in Shanghai. What's his end game
He already has a huge factory in Shanghai. The oligarchs ran our country broke by taking 99% of the wealth and paying 0% of their taxes. We could fix things easily if they just paid their legal taxes but they would rather suck the rest of the country dry.
I looked it up .he is planning a second plant in Shanghai to build MegaPacks for export to the domestic market. It represents an investment of 1.45 million Yuan, 202 million US. Didn't build the plant in the US did he. He took our tax write offs and subsidies and spent them in China.
Where's he supposed to be building the new one, I read it was going to be Shanghai. Maybe he's going to build a second one. You are correct. The billionaires are emptying our coffers at an alarming rate, especially with Musk in the mix. It really doesn't appear there's any way to stop this raiding.
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Keep telling us about these kinds of things.