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Exactly! Manufacturers might set up returns to their recycling centers so they can add to their profit.
I probably have a couple dozen old pc boards lying around here.

I tried. But I couldn't get over the Vatican Wall.
And they had Gates I couldn't get through.

Also, keep in mind. Most machines are 3-5 year lifespans. While you are setting this up, get some "Electronic Recycling" Process going. So that 50% of your supply comes from recycling recently departed equipment, and 50% from the backlog.

The question really becomes... How fast will we run out of the oldest stuff?

I am reminded that you can have a LOT of "garbage" of some type (Kudzu). But the minute someone figures out how to run a CAR on it. You will have shortages! LOL

I love Triscuts! Cracked black pepper is a fav.

Should help a lot! Saw this the other day, from Epoch I think.
Nitron magnetics is working pretty hard to make rare earths irrelevant in magnets. Their magnets are in production, but small. They have issues with size, and larger magents have to be bonded, losing a portion of their properties. We are working with them on proper motor/generator designs to leverage them.

Perhaps with the exception of Fetterman, at least 99% has TDS. 99.5? 99.9?

Sounds like a process very similar to oil refining.

Great group! I'm going to have to vote for the Triscuit one and the idolizing a politician one as the top two.

Probably wouldn't make any difference but at least he's not in our face spouting stupid shit and not a pedophile as far as we know.

Not to mention the 75% that don't, probably wouldn't get it anyway.

This is a well known paper from August 30, 2005.
It has not been refuted.

The scary thing is the word 'most'.
Not five percent, not twenty percent,
but 'most', presumably well over half.

And everyone else who thinks la la liby like Democrats with 25% needing to take mental malfunction meds.

Super bunch!
Someone should show the last one to the pope.

This is so well written! I’m having lunch reading it on my way home from an inspection on another rental property I’m purchasing. I realized recently that if I just work, earn a fat paycheck, and save - it’s not enough!!! Man, this one hits home. A couple years ago I came to the realization that the Feds’ approach to our massive debt would be to inflate our way out of it. Looks like I nailed it, huh? Problem is, in spite of being more politically expedient than self discipline or austerity, it won’t work. It’s like digging a hole deeper and deeper piling the dirt on top of your head. I just paid $25 for this burger and a beer… I’m dumping a lot of cash, exercising a little domestic austerity, and actively trading equities (no more HODL…too damn volatile, which is a symptom of the problem described in this article).

I really feel sorry for the kids these days. I detect grossly lower hope with them than what we had…

Saw this the other day - blew my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMb4...

California has a vast deposit of Lithium and it just needs to be filtered out of the brine that is already being used a geothermal energy.

" isn't that mountain scattered all over the land"
I agree that there would be a significant up front cost, but wouldn't that be considerably lower cost than mining half a mile or more below the surface in Yak-istan?
Adding 'computer' trash to recycling process now will give would result in a new surface 'mine' and constant stream for the future to feed this process.
How many million people have old non-working electronics in their closets today?

In the end, aren't all Chinese companies fronts for the CCP? No mystery that selling an American company to a Chinese company would mean eventually shipping it and it's technology to China. "Partnering" an American company to a Chinese company does the same thing except bleeding all the wealth out of the American side to the Chinese "partner" precedes the move. Trump is the first politician in my life time to say "No more!".

The article says America has a mountain of discarded electronics, but isn't that mountain scattered all over the land, which would add to the expense of recovering the metals?

Moondoggy is beautiful and so is her talent. May she stay safe and well and not become a target for painting her beliefs. Thanks, Carl, for sharing this artist with us.

Putting all the rotteness in a nice column, easily understandable and very visible, was quite an achievement , ouc. You managed to display the whole disgusting pool of slop, so well that it turned my stomach. In spite of the fact that I knew all these things, the compilation was masterful, and hit me hard. Thank you for digging through the horror of insurrection to reveal just how far along this country is on that road. I wish I could give your post more than one thumbs up at a time.

I have been wanting to join that company that produced it..."Angel"?

Me too.

You and a few others have reach the "concussions" (yes, they are a knock in the head), I intended within the order of those questions.

The fanatics control AI . . .

This bunch should make some non-thinkers re-think their non-think. I have read portions of that book, and the further in you get, the louder the call goes to smite the infidel. People of the book are thrown under the bus just as surely as the lbgt----etc are thrown off buildings. We can no longer believe anything we see. I watched a video of my cousins at age 5 and 3, made from a black and white photo taken nearly 70 years ago. It looked real, as if it had always been a movie. If the fanatics don't get us, the AI will.

I'm getting tired of feeding this mess with my hard work and taxes. Talking to my boss next week and introducing my exit strategy next year. I'm going hiking, drinking beer, sleeping soundly and other healthy things...

No. I don't think we have a chance. I was just watching the news, just now, while eating dinner after a long day at the office and I see the reporters say that the DOJ needs to investigate what is obvious organized attacks on the government right now. I pointed out that the DOJ hasn't arrested anybody. These trouble makers have been given a blank check and total freedom to disrupt...and worse.