Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals

Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by epicmellon on Friday May 06, 2016 @11:31AM (#11644629)

Musk further said, "This is totally not related to why we want to mine asteroids."

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Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by adwn on Friday May 06, 2016 @11:57AM (#11644800)

SpaceX isn't planning to mine asteroids, that's Planetary Resources. http://planetaryresources.com/

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Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by hga on Friday May 06, 2016 @12:03PM (#11644843)

Someone needs to get their space craft there....

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Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by epicmellon on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:26PM (#11646502)

You're right. I should clarify that by "we" I mean "the people doing stuff".

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Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by jcbeard on Friday May 06, 2016 @12:54PM (#11645165)

But why not...it could be.

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Re:Tesla Shakes Up Market for Lithium, Other Metals by JshWright on Friday May 06, 2016 @01:40PM (#11645455)

It could be a lot of things... there is no compelling motivation for SpaceX to get involved in asteroid mining (aside from providing rides).

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