Comments on: $120 Million “Manhattan Project” To Avert Critical Materials Shortage http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/09/120-million-manhattan-project-to-avert-critical-materials-shortage/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: SecularAnimist http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/09/120-million-manhattan-project-to-avert-critical-materials-shortage/#comment-146620 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47002#comment-146620 Tina Casey wrote: “Dysprosium, terbium, europium, neodymium and yttrium …”

Where is Tom Lehrer when you need him!

]]> By: Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/09/120-million-manhattan-project-to-avert-critical-materials-shortage/#comment-146595 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47002#comment-146595 Thank you for that funny. Yes, $120 (originally in the second paragraph without “million” after it) was a typo. It’s fixed now. T.

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/09/120-million-manhattan-project-to-avert-critical-materials-shortage/#comment-146589 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47002#comment-146589 And while I’m at it, I’d like to thank China for keeping the cost of rare earths so low for so many years. This quite useful to the developing renewable energy industry. While rare earths are only a tiny fraction of the cost various renewable energy technologies, every dollar in savings helps.

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/09/120-million-manhattan-project-to-avert-critical-materials-shortage/#comment-146568 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:08:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47002#comment-146568 If it makes anyone feel better, some of the rare earth metals coming out of China actually come from Australia. We ship rare earth dirt to China for processing as refining the metals here just isn’t profitable. (And speaking of profits, I don’t think the Department of Energy’s $120 is going to go very far. I think you’d have to spend at least twice that to get any results.)

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