Posted on 06/05/2025 7:27:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
People, you do not understand.
It’s not rare earth metals. IT IS ONE RARE EARTH METAL. Neodymium.
A motor spins because some number of amperes flows in a a coil of wire in a magnetic field. The reason we have cordless drills is not the lithium batteries. It is because the magnetic field became many times stronger than existed with iron magnets. So you don’t have to flow the same ampere total to get the same torque if you have a stronger B field (B is the usual symbol for magnetic field).
THIS IS EVERY SINGLE MOTOR. AC Compressors, every fan in your computer, EV motors (and in reverse, the alternators in gasoline cars), every motor. Every drill. Every saw. Every . . . everything.
The Chinese don’t care about pieces of printed paper from Treasury. They care that they have an item that defines society. They will send it to Russia. They will not send it anywhere that might transfer it to the US.
This “deal” upcoming is going to be crushing, because it would be foolish for China, after being demonized all this time, NOT TO BE CRUSHING.
Google NIOCORP. Trump needs to push hard for our own development of these metals.
OMEX (stock symbol) has the actual capability to mine some of those off of the seabeds. Company is making a profit already.
Stock symbol NB.
The whole “most favored nations” thing and the former strategic stockpile of materials needed for war are issues that need to be broadly discussed in regards to China.
I disagree. We are screwed over twice by DEMOCRATS, who created that insane processing chain.
We have plenty of rare earth in the USA.
Heck, we used to have near monopoly on them!
But the enviros and cheap Chinese supply made us shut this down!
Plus, we had several warnings. China use this as a weapon, but when somebody tries to get a production going elsewhere, they drove them out of business.
How can we and the rest of the world, be so idiotic!
Maybe, we should re-develop that capabilities and ban Chinese supply forever!
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