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EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just because most rare earth minerals come from China, doesn't mean they don't exist elsewhere...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Setting up infrastructure of mining and processing them will be a decades long effort.

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