Rare Earth | Green Technologies | Documentary

Rare Earth - For thousands of years, they lay dormant in the soil until suddenly, they became the driving force behind a technical revolution. Smart phones, laptops, touch screens, wind turbines, hybrid vehicles: they all need rare earth materials. A fascinating glimpse at cutting-edge research that could make our green technologies of the future even greener.
Rare Earth (2013)
Director: Christian Schidlowski
Genre:Documentary
Country: Germany
Language: English
Also Known As: Treasure Hunters
Synopsis:
Today China mines an incredible 97% of all rare earth minerals extracted worldwide. The Chinese government makes good use of this monopoly: recently, it cut production by about two-thirds. Within days the prices of some rare earth metals shot up by 1000%. However, the Chinese also have to deal with the downside of rare earth mining: Environmental pollution, destroyed landscapes and radioactive residues, as rare earth metal deposits are usually laced with radioactive minerals and are extremely difficult to refine.
Because of the scarcity of rare earth deposits, the sky-rocketing prices on the international commodity market and the environmental problems associated with mining and processing, scientists around the world are looking for new, better ways to source these minerals. We follow researchers as they drill for new deposits in Europe and Australia, we see how they try and find new, more environmentally friendly ways of processing the materials, we discover how they try and recycle them out of old mobile phones and computers - and we reveal how physicists and chemists are working on ground-breaking new materials that could soon replace rare earths completely - a fascinating glimpse at cutting-edge research that could make our green technologies of the future even greener.
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[@moeluv]

The next 50-100 years is going to be very interesting for rare earths, platinum group metals and rhenium.

[@simsnqta]

You could have explained which chemicals and metals rare earths contain so I don't have to google it....

[@MrRockrespect]

The technology of ten thousand years is right beneath our feet

[@le8307]

the only green energy is vegetables. eat your vegetables

[@sonnylambert4893]

There’s no such thing as green technology. Creating a whole new industry building new plants new production facilities new vehicles how is any of that actually green lol

[@pumpkinpie78]

Did they hire female models as lab and industrial workers?

[@stevenherrold5955]

NOTE TO THE PRODUCER OF THIS VIDEO i appreciate the foreign language interpreter instead of having to read the captions thank you

[@jmc8076]

For me I prefer the subtitles but at least the voices matched the people.

[@fishingfan1500]

"Dispose"-ium... Interesting 🤔

[@remzo011]

Its easy to do just costs a bit however in ZAR you can do extraction for cheap cheap

[@Jeff13R]

"FOR ROCK & STONE!!!"

[@FisherKot]

We should do away with computers and smartphones and internet and digital, and just have lots of well stocked libraries

[@fransmars1645]

All I can say it this point is that German people seem to have great potential as villains in American conspiracy movies.

[@stephenlane1801]

I didn't catch what rare earth did for magnets did they explain that can anybody explain that to me please comment

[@Greater_pakistan]

slow internet in pakistan is also problem😅😅😅

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

babygirl make sure i dont miss 5 oclock news today

[@a111oveWrldWde]

💖💖💖🌏🌍🌎

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

Digging it all up is far more damaging tha its benefits. *Also, we should have only public transport. Private vehicles are a waste!

[@shbilalcom]

it...

[@nowhere474]

DAMAGE FROM LITHIUM MINING ALONE, WILL LAST CENTURIES

[@anthonyman8008]

Look at my "community"

[@igorbeuk4068]

Lithium 😂 fantastic if it's happened for real it's because it will be Natural Catastrophe, poisonous Air and more health problems ect. Change has to happen and we should overcome current technology but Mining 🌍⛏️ No clear water in the future where lithium Mining is in Europe will be more than regional.

[@stanohps]

...milion years were created, and we create then smartphones designed to be crap in 2 years. Holy capitalism! 🤣

[@loganprice8998]

If you have to harvest it from the earth it is the opposite of green

[@walterJiang-p1y]

asm