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Re:Next-generation Qi2 wireless charging standard embraces A... by robomartin on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:53PM (#34239866)
How finite of a resource is our magnet supply? Every time I see magnets used this question comes to mind. Sometimes it feels like they have become an unnecessary gimmick that is being abused by designers of all kinds of products. Anyone else have this reaction?
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Re:Next-generation Qi2 wireless charging standard embraces A... by asdff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:17PM (#34250059)
Extend that to all the raw materials we squander for short lived consumer goods that we proceed to bury in landfills. In the future we will probably be mining these landfills after we've extracted all the accessible resources from the earth.
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Re:Next-generation Qi2 wireless charging standard embraces A... by Schroedingersat on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:47AM (#34260274)
Iron nitride is effectively unlimited but manufacturing is difficult. Rare earths are more limited. Monazite isn't exceptionally rare, it's just mining it is quite awful.
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