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China bans export of rare earth processing kit (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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China bans export of rare earth processing kit::Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rare earths... Is this why China seems to be upping their territorial dispute with Philippine? Because the seafloor on that region is supposed to be rich with rare earths?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Tetrataenite magnets will have soon solved that dependency and will be massively cheaper. I wouldnt worry about that too much.