Comments on: Rare Earth Metals Caught in Trade War https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/ Fresh hacks every day Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Miroslav https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155544 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:34:00 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155544 In reply to Miroslav.

@Black Mage:

Thank you. I wanted to add that (universal health care) as a good place to invest the money that is currently eaten up by MIC. It would increase standard of living and prosperity so much.

But I was afraid that “no commies in Murica, bro” crowd is going to shut me down :)))

USA is the only remaining 1st world country without universal health care, it seems.

@Ren:
Yes.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155521 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:56:56 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155521 In reply to Martin.

In EVs RE magnets should be avoided as AC induction motors are better all round.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155517 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:52:52 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155517 In reply to Miroslav.

This along with pass single payer universal health care as it would greatly ease the burden on small companies as most new companies start out as small operations with just a few employees and are unable to negotiate deals on insurance.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155516 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:49:23 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155516 In reply to tekkieneet.

The skill set pool for assembling electronics no longer exists on the large scale in the US because most people no longer make things themselves nor are these skills taught in the schools.
Look at some old footage of factories in the US you’ll see a lot of older women as their skills at things like needle point translated well to assembling the electronics of the day.
Another thing electronics were more expensive back then when something broke they got it fixed vs threw it away and bought a new one.
Back in the day when you TV broke you called a repairman to come fix it vs throw it in the trash.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155510 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:38:52 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155510 In reply to Jake.

The short attention span of modren day corporate America is partly to blame for that.
Instead of doing a long term in vestment of modernizing mining to comply with the new laws they took the cheap in the sort term path of going to China for them.
The fact US companies like open office plans because they are cheaper even though they reduce productivity and increase churn in the long term is a testament to just how short their fiscal attention span is.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155502 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:32:42 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155502 In reply to Black Mage.

On safety they would be much safer to work on than boiling water reactors in that they can be shut down more easily and the core material simply drained.

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By: Black Mage https://hackaday.com/2019/06/04/rare-earth-metals-caught-in-trade-war/#comment-6155492 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:13:21 +0000 https://hackaday.com/?p=360991#comment-6155492 In reply to Andrew J Combs.

These are more easily solvable engineering problems than trying to make fusion work or even battery storage on a large scale
In fact it’s an already solved problem as industry already deals with much more corrosive materials such as UF6,concentrated lye,chlorine compounds, and all the wonderful stuff used in semiconductor manufacturing.

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