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A comment on Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden. Parent comment

Re:Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered ... by capableweb on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:56AM (#34352223)
Maybe not super familiar for speed/"velocity" addicted software engineers working on web apps, but things like mining, construction and other huge operations take some time to complete, and safety in modern countries is a huge factor when doing things like this, which adds a lot of time as well.
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Re:Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered ... by moonchrome on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:11AM (#34352356)
Ok but why is this news worthy ? Predicting industry demand in 15 years is pointless. I mean I remember 15 years ago everyone was talking about "peak oil imminent collapse". This seems irrelevant for problems of today so framing it as a solution to these is ridiculous. By the time these start producing most of Europe has already proposed ICE bans.
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Re:Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered ... by capableweb on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:21AM (#34353059)
Even though "News" is in the name of "Hacker News" it's not just for "News" or "New Things", it's for everything hackers find interesting. This story, evidently, is interesting enough to gather 133 points in less than 1 hour so it is "Hacker News Worthy" even if it maybe isn't "news worthy".
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