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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by senttoschool on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:19AM (#35465298)
Will you complain when inflation is 500% by quitting Middle East oil and China's manufacturing?
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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by kalleboo on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:37AM (#35466563)
Why would slowly increasing renewables and EVs while diversifying and automating manufacturing cause 500% inflation?
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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by peterfirefly on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:19AM (#35468632)
Fracking and nuclear are here-and-now options. Wind/solar/batteries are long-term options... especially with lots of HVDC.

We are causing a lot of trouble by shoveling money at bad countries run by bad people -- the Ukraine war wouldn't have happened if large (and important) parts of Europe 1) hadn't bought so much Russian gas and 2) made itself so dependent on the ability to keep buying it. This provided Putin with 1) the ability to wage war and 2) the feeling, bordering on certainty, that it was safe to do so.

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