With China Clamping Down on Rare-Earth Metals, Japanese Manufacturers Devise Clever Alternatives

"China said the move was meant to protect the environment." Ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HAAAAAA! Stop it! I'm weeping with laughter! Ha ha HAAAAAAAA! Thank you Pop Sci. You made my day.

Great the newer designs of efficient motors/generators have yet to hit the mass market space, and now they never will !!
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darn Chinese

Japan, the free world thanks you!

Afghanistan has a lot of rare earth minerals. Is anyone looking there for a new supply?

@dhp
Of course people are looking there. I knew about the resources years ago from my EnvSci courses (far sooner then the 'report' that PopSci wrote about several months ago). If I knew about it then, I'm sure the government scientists knew about it far before.
As insensitive as it seems to be posting this on the anniversary of the terror attacks, I truly beleive the USA let them happen in order to gain some sort of 'right' to these minerals (just like the oil in Iraq).
Wars are no longer over land, it's all about the minerals under that land. This war over minerals won't be as clear as simply walking into a country and stealing all of thier resources. It will (and is) be fought through clever manipulations such as false flag operations and hoarding policies.

wow,
terterter, you can take your tinfoil hat off now and come join the rest of us in reality. Its warm...

@tertertert

The lithium deposits reported by the military in Afghanistan several years ago were deposits of lithium bearing minerals which are hard and expensive to process. The reports a few months ago was not regarding those minerals rather salt flats that are saturated with lithium similar to Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. These types of deposits are relatively easy and cheap to process.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-06/why-finding-lithium-afghanistan-big-deal-even-if-it-never-leaves-ground

Okay so my big question is whether the Iron nitrogen magnets mentioned are the same ones reported a little while back that go beyond the theoretical limits of magnetism. I also wonder if Forbes got confused and assumed from the old article that these were going to actually be made because the last I heard was that the iron nitride compound could not be made pure in large enough amounts to make sizeable magnets. Any thoughs or more detailed links specifically on that topic.

@Speek-r

tertertert is right, were fighting for resources. You think its just coincidence that they just happen to have a lot of oil too. Thats why we gave weapons to them to fight off the soviets, so we could sit on top of that oil. Now we're fighting with the same insurgents, with most of the weapons we gave them, ha the irony. And to think that the government wouldn't lie or deceive you, is just ignorant.

Afghanistan doesnt have any real volume of oil. That statement was just plain wrong. The reason we are over there is because islam has been perverted and now its threatening all the progress made by man in the last 1000 years. The US and other countries are moving away from oil. Always with you lefty conspirators its oil. If we were really into "taking other peoples resources" why didn't we just go where it is and invade russia or saudi arabia? Next time think your "theories" through