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Prepare to lose metals, says UN group
Chemistry World ^
| 20 May 2010
| Andy Extance
Posted on 05/26/2010 12:48:24 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
05/26/2010 12:48:25 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
The United States is broke; we have no money to spare.
Sorry you UN bunch of socialist dictators we are going to have to cut your allowance to 25 cents a week.
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:10:13 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: neverdem
From the same gang which brought us “Global Warming”
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:24:52 AM PDT
by
101voodoo
To: neverdem
They try really hard don’t they?
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:30:14 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: neverdem
>> ‘Scientists should anticipate the possibility that they may not have the whole periodic table to work with in future,’ says Thomas Graedel
Is it just me, or does it sound like ol’ Thomas is making a threat?
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:45:05 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: Pontiac
Sorry you UN bunch of socialist dictators we are going to have to cut your allowance to 25 cents a week.That's a raise in some of their home countrys.
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:53:15 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Obama, get a mop for this oil.)
To: chemicalman
That's a raise in some of their home countrys. True but it wouldnt buy them a glass of water in New York
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posted on
05/26/2010 1:58:44 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/26/2010 2:05:14 AM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/26/2010 3:19:48 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: neverdem
Chemical producers brace for shortages as thousands of tonnes of raw material are stranded in port due to traces of GM crops Must be Obama's faultTM, since he took over GM, right? /sarc>
...and you thought they just made cars!
Cheers!
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posted on
05/26/2010 3:50:24 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: neverdem
Remind me to start producing and selling my new T-shirt / bumper sticker idea:
Nuke the UN
Cheers!
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posted on
05/26/2010 3:51:55 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Let me know when I can order one. I’ll wear it on alternate days with my NRA shirt.
To: neverdem
The United States retains the world's largest lode of rare earth minerals protected by Diane Feinstein's Desert Protection Act.
Of course, it wouldn't have anything to do with her husband's investments in Chinese rare earth mineral development.
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:28:13 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
To: C210N
My favorite particle is the Par-Mesan.............
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:29:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you'll know that its desolation is NEAR. Luke 21)
To: neverdem
Sounds like they’re expecting to ban mining operations just keep recycling what we’ve already got.
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:29:59 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: grey_whiskers
I kind of like “UNmake it”
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:31:32 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(I'm just an inkjet printer in a holographic world...)
To: neverdem
The landfills of today are the gold mines of the future. Pity, in a way, that so much has been spent to 'reclaim' mines and bury tailings which might have been reprocessed for materials in the future.
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:46:33 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: grey_whiskers
thousands of tonnes of raw material are stranded in port due to traces of GM crops
Choices choices. Starve or eat GM crops.
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posted on
05/26/2010 5:50:58 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
( Seeking the truth here folks.)
To: neverdem
Now hold on people, this really is serious. Rare earth metals are called that for a reason: They are rare. Some of these metals come only from a handfull of mines. There are no other known sources in the entire world. Understand?
We are rapidly depleting the entire world’s supply of several of these metals. The next generation of integrated circuits is going to be based on a rare earth metal (forgot which one) that will run out in 5 years or less.
Poopooing recycling and the United Nations isn’t going to produce any more tantalum. We do need to recycle what we have. However, the problem is that such a tiny amount of these rare earth metals are used in an individual product like a cell phone that it isn’t profitable or even possible to recycle.
China’s industrial demands are sucking up the majority of the supply of rare earth metals. Their demand is sucking up the supply of metals in general. They have already bought most of the US’s steel production for the near future.
The inevitable complete depletion of some of the rare earth in the next 5 years will cause us to take a step backward in some technologies as we are forced to used less exotic materials.
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posted on
05/26/2010 6:04:09 AM PDT
by
RadiationRomeo
(Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
To: neverdem
Mine the landfills. Lots of good stuff in there.
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