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Its Europium]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
http://chemistry.about.com/od/periodictableelements/ig/Element-Photo-Gallery.--98/Europium.htm]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
now i'm full AND high! Yay, Steak-Opium!]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/It is quite obviously the spice melange.]]>Mar 10th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
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But...trees do produce up to 30% of the worlds methane and he was only making a sarcastic comment. No need to attack him with a more serious comment.
This is a tech website. Not a place to argue about something as meaningless to us geeks as "being green". ]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Dr. Reducto REFUSES to huge a tree. Only tiny.]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
(Maybe he is a robot?!?)]]>Mar 10th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/robosoft-kompai-takes-care-of-your-elderly-so-you-dont-have-to/

maybe?]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/try making a super strength magnet out of silicon, carbon instead of neodymium.]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/defense-geeks-fret-over-rare-earth-metal-supplies/

]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Or...

We could be sitting on our raw material assets letting China (who is manufacturing the crap made from rare earth elements anyways) use up their natural resources, pollute their land, overdevelop their cities, while the US sits back from a learned lesson of hyper industrialization in the 20th century and takes a more sustainable, and more profitable approach. The US lets the other countries gouge their eyes out producing natural resources and when they are sapped dry, the US will be sitting on very profitable ground. ]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Put simply, if you read engadget, you love gadgets, and all your gadgets use rare earth minerals! Simple as that.

So unless you are all cool with living in caves, and rubbing sticks together to keep warm, rare earth minerals and their need are here to stay.

They can be mined in and processed in environmentally friendly ways, most likely not in China, but elsewhere. The hard part is our domestic mines are doing their part to be as environmentally friendly as possible, that holds them back from being as agressive as the Chinese. But they are making some serious gains on that front too!

The fact that China currently mines more than 90% of the worlds rare earth minerals (like 97% to be more exact), makes them the middle east of this resource. We need to think now about investing in our domestic resources, again so we are not so vulnerable as we are with oil.

This has been getting the press oil does, but it should!

Keep the starcraft references coming guys, I am loving it, "fire it up!".

Now if they would just release Starcraft 2, there would be peace in the Koreas!]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/not trying to be American and all *I am* , but according to your analogy we should just do the same as we did with the Middle East. ]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Semiconductors need rare earth minerals.
Plastics come from the Petroleum industry.

What tech devices in use today do not use either semiconductors or plastic in some form or another? None.]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Semiconductors need rare earth minerals.
Plastics come from the Petroleum industry.

What tech devices in use today do not use either semiconductors or plastic in some form or another? None.]]>Mar 10th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/Mar 10th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/us-mineral-companies-to-tech-industry-drill-baby-drill/
Exactly my point, almost all consumer electronics along with military, science, medical, you name it, uses some form of rare earth minerals.

I also saw a post on recycling consumer electronics for this stuff in the thread here, and that indeed needs to be done!

by the end of this year, Chinese exports will be practically nill to the rest of the world, so we also need to invest locally...yesterday!

The more global ecnomically we get, the more we need to invest locally to be viable and competitive in a global economy, or watch everyone zoom past us because they have done just that!
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US tech industry to mineral companies: drill, baby, drill]]>Mar 10th 2010 3:05PM