Comments on: Japan Scores Huge Rare Earth Find in the South Pacific http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-102014 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:52:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-102014 Bill, sorry, i somehow missed this in pending comments! approve now — sorry for the delay

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101822 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101822 China also makes most of the world’s antibiotics, and much of the sophisticated electronics used in our weaponary. The politician and/or General responsible for allowing the United States to have China make our weapons should be shot for treason, along with anyone else involved.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101776 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:36:27 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101776 We will find the ways…

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101766 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101766 I think the ‘take home’ here is that there is a good source of REMs if we really need to tap it. Right now we’ve got enough dry land resources to keep us going for a long time and REMs are not consumed during use, but recyclable.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101762 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101762 Work has been going on since the 1960s and there are ways to minimize impacts–

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/deep-sea_mining_is_coming_assessing_the_potential_impacts/2375/

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/20/is-deep-sea-mining-bad-for-the-environment.html

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101752 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:05:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101752 There is not too much detail but basically Japan detained a Chinese fisherman who (accidentally surely) rammed a Japanes coastguard type boat and at that time China cut off Japan’s supply of REE.
http://www.raremetalblog.com/2010/10/india-vows-to-supply-rare-earth-mineral-to-japan.html

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101750 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101750 True. As is mining for oil five miles under the sea now, compared with just scraping it up off the land was before Hubberts Peak.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101749 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101749 yeah, that would be a huge challenge. and may be some big environmental challenges as well…

will see

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101748 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101748 Good luck mining that. It’ll be expensive and technically daunting.

]]> By: MasahikoF http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101747 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101747 “…..Japan, which had its supplies brutally cut over a political misstep a few years ago involving a straying Chinese fisherman.”

That’s a rather creative way to put it. Whose misstep?

]]> By: Likumaru http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/09/japan-scores-huge-rare-earth-find-in-the-south-pacific/#comment-101745 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28789#comment-101745 それはすばらしいです!

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