Rare Earths: Can These Rare Minerals Save Our Planet? | Treasure Hunters | Spark

[@sikenah103]

Japan located the rare earths about 1,850 kilometers off the shore of Minamitori Island. Engineers located the minerals in 10-meter-deep cores taken from sea floor sediment. Mapping the cores revealed and area of approximately 2,500 square kilometers containing rare earths. Japan's engineers estimate there's 16 million tons of rare earths down there. That's five times the amount of the rare earth elements ever mined since 1900. According to Business Insider, there's "enough yttrium to meet the global demand for 780 years, dysprosium for 730 years, europium for 620 years, and terbium for 420 years."

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Any updates yet ?

[@texasray5237]

1850 klms???? The words _"off the shore of Minamitori Island"_ don't really apply when the distance is that great. Even the word _"near"_ would be stretching the truth. It's far beyond the 12 mile territorial limit and even the 200 mile exclusive economic limit. So Japan had better get busy exploiting those deposits before China or some other country decides to do so. Japan cannot claim possession of the seabed at that distance from its territory.

[@zhoubaidinh403]

1850 km off the coast of anything belongs to China my man.....

[@texasray5237]

@@zhoubaidinh403 So that's how it works. Call it the Northeast China Sea.

[@zebposada]

Japan owns that, surely is going to mine it.

[@zendonbuilds948]

Stefan Gath is right on the money about recycling vs. primary metal costs. Aluminum is a good example because it takes a lot of electricity to make aluminum from bauxite. But it takes much less electricity to melt and cast aluminum scrap. The problem with rare earths is that there's a whole flowchart of chemical processes for separating them if they're mixed together.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

so what? Aluminium alloys for aircraft(7075) or lithium aluminium help produce highly efficient aircraft structures . to make compromises in their manufacture to reduce enrergy used is totally counter productive.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Aluminum scrap is a third world concept to melt it down for kitchen utensiles , out in the local primitive shops.

[@matteloht]

@@Arturo-lapaz The Aluminium gained from scrap metal doesn't have to be of worse quality then the aluminum from ores. Those also have to get separate from other materials in the process. But the big difference is the bond with oxygen in the ores which consumes the biggest amount of energy to break it. That isn't the case if you already have the pure metal, with maybe a small oxide layer.

[@febeomnibeepboop6367]

@@Arturo-lapaz read again, hes not talking about aluminum and you avoid his main point which points out the critical failure of this so called green energy.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

@@febeomnibeepboop6367 sorry, you are right, I just jumped to the notion, that the energy to make the super alloys used in aircraft, specifically in the 777, aluminium lithium fades compared to the reduction in fuel consumption over the life of the airplane. And there is no shortage of energy available in the enormous coal and gas reserves. BTW the power produced by thousands of windturbines is ridiculously small, compared to conventional sources. Also the notion that coal is mostly 'fossil' is wrong, The vast majority of the coal is in deepper locations, of anthracite origin

[@bingosunnoon9341]

What an outstanding report. Thanks.

[@HepCatJack]

It would make more sense to find a way to extract the rare earths concentrated in Coal ash (instead of dumping the ash in rivers and streams).

[@europaeuropa3673]

Maybe in china, not in the US unless you believe in lying.

[@danielash1704]

Coal ash is a concrete that strengthens concrete and assist with leveling the surface.

[@brandonwarren7654]

Its called fly ash they put it in concrete

[@Vespyr_]

It's fucking up the planet too.

[@ivantomic2366]

@@Vespyr_ George Carlin: "Planet is fine."

[@peterchristmas1113]

I think that’s very good please continue your urban mining this is very very important to recycle everything that we can

[@josevicentecastellripoll8340]

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[@tomkelly8827]

At the end the guy is acting like it is a problem to have Thorium in solution after separating rare earths. Certainly it would be an issue if the solution was then dumped into the river but why not just extract the thorium from solution for use as a nuclear fuel. It sounds to me like pairing thorium mining with rare earth mining is the way to go. After all Thorium is the safer nuclear fuel because weapons can not be made from Thorium but reactor fuels can. k

[@jamesfenton7338]

Thorium is everywhere, it's cheap, the Thorium in the sample is waste and needs to be secured. You answered your own question about why "Light water" reactors are preferred, you can make weaponry. Don't worry, man is his own worst enemy, mankind will eventually destroy himself, problem solved....

[@purebloodheretic4682]

👍Yeh Tom, the Thorium LFTR reactor is a Game Changer! Safe Nuclear that can use Thorium or Nuclear Waste as fuel👍😉

[@jimbrewer498]

I've been advocating for thorium reactors for years and years now, but yeah, you can't produce weapons grade byproducts like you can with uranium reactors, that's why governments (except a few, like Canada)have invested in them.

[@TheLoonmaster]

Yes, the radioactive waste associated with rare earth mining is largely overblown & not as severe an ecological problem as initially thought! The main public health/environmental problems are heavy metal dusts and strong acid byproducts produced during the refinement process. Those are the areas we should target for improvement.

[@bonjegetreal441]

Grateful dead

[@martinquinn7804]

I really enjoyed watching and learning a tremendous amount of knowledge from this documentary

[@brettvv7475]

This reads like a two robots communicating.

[@charliejohnston1978]

Yes, this was a very informative documentary about raw earth metals which have the atomic numbers between # 55 and 70. It's interesting that all of these raw earth metals have the electron sub-shell sequence of:: 2 - 8 - 18 - 18 - X - 8 - X - 2, where X is mainly the only variable. QED

[@Angela-nz6rf]

Very interesting. I had a dream about metals. I would like to share it with you Charles

[@Brandi.Nicole]

@@Angela-nz6rf I had a dream too. 3 compartment system to clean and deliver specific water using these same deposits that create a pure energy communities can utilize. ❤ Have you ever heard anything about this? It is more about oxygen - physics - and cycling. I have a vague scientific 🧪 formula Like many inventors 😅 I did it backwards so if you’re part of a social think group somewhere I’d love to join. Not doing it for money anyway - anything of this nature should be open source. Tbh may delete this in 24 hours - energy is a huge profit and I don’t want to end up 👻 lol.😂

[@herintuion88]

Very interesting ... Thank u for sharing 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@radioguy1620]

Love the intro , lab coated scientist , spooky setting in the wilds, foreign language speaking specialists, great one two three start , could be used anywhere .

[@sebastienloyer9471]

Fur Germans , IST nicht und problem. IST eine solution ! For the Germans, it is not a problem, it is a solution !

[@CoinsAndCapsaicin]

Oooh just found this and I'm very excited!!!!

[@kells9k]

Dude thank you so much for doing all you do. I'm sure you make an incredibly great living and all with YT but just know your high quality work is helping many many students let alone curious future engineers!

[@pissiole5654]

@MaxAttack222 lol if you think this channels making these videos at all, clearly made for TV

[@Derideo]

This garbage video is full of fallacy and hype. Find better sources.

[@jimgriffiths9071]

Excellent production! Wow! Better than a BBC documentary. Well done!

[@briancam_2000]

Both are Anti Nuclear Fake news

[@killer1963daddy]

Got to love the subtitles, they are hilarious

[@budgiegames9703]

...all these can be avoided wth deep-sea mining about possum eating bird [Music]

[@oleran4569]

22:10 "rare earth sex lords". Oh my.

[@oleran4569]

43:41 "we want to know where is what horsedick trust"

[@nakinajay]

“ We cannot see woman we noticed that the shortage triggered speculation “ sounds like my little town of *300* I live in LOL !!!

[@rickoshay6554]

@@nakinajay Is yours that little town where, as they say, "every time a baby's born a man leaves town?"

[@johnwest7993]

A critically important step in the implementation of alternative energy and modern technology is figuring out how to use common materials, cheaper materials, to make the devices we want. Both battery and PV tech are making advances in precisely that direction. The push for ever cheaper materials is helping greatly in this.

[@mivapusa]

I wrote my thesis in the mining of poly metallic manganese nodules on the seafloor. Always great to see it brought up.

[@Kiaorafranz]

Is there any chance to harvest those "nodules" from the ocean floor without to destroy the whole eco-system?

[@lukeevans1945]

@@Kiaorafranz somewhat hopeful proposals include using underwater tracked 'drones' to remove the nodules in a path and send them to the surface while depositing the sludge/sediment that is pulled up with the nodules near the sea floor as opposed to higher up in the water column.

[@delallegood5799]

The US has allowed color television picture tubes to be put into land fills for many years. Those contain several rare earths and the glass is heavily leaded to prevent radioactivity from escaping.The glass could be remelted to glass case radioactive waste,as is being done with new materials.

[@rbnhd1976]

I've said for several years that one day, some company would be buying up old landfills to mine for stuff

[@RoberteLee-it7ge]

The problem with that would be the location of the dump site you would want it in a geological stable ares if the the land below such a dump were to shift the class could crack or shatter and digging it back up would be expensive it would be another environmental disaster on the scale of Chernobyl. It always the three L's location location location. Who other than the Chinese would want that in that's back yard.

[@RoberteLee-it7ge]

@@rbnhd1976 they do and they mine Methane gas.

[@kathleenegan8660]

Problem is they need a furnace that is contained and safe to read melt the rare earth elements from the cast off raw materials. Developing that type of technology is increasingly more important.

[@mostwantedpakbusu]

narrator and background music theme makes this video feels as if we are discovering new species of aliens .

[@aaronseet2738]

Given the sheer number of hard disks I operate and trash (after failure), I've learnt to disassemble them into their component parts (especially the magnets) and slowly accumulating them in weight to eventually sell.

[@uberlupe1]

Same here.

[@asmaremengistu2449]

Metal mines in some places in the US are high in rare earths. They don't even need to dig them out - they were already dug up. Fantastic video! Keep it up! I will built Jacob university in your support the near future

[@jeremyandmichelledevereux2756]

Australia is one enormous rare earth mine with no real interest in mining it.

[@melissayoungbar1796]

They are too busy stealing and militarizing the South Pole.

[@sueschoers4974]

@@melissayoungbar1796 it will be mined when it is worth the investment to get to it. At present it’s cost prohibitive, let China use up their resources & then it will be mined like everything else.

[@nunyabusiness8538]

china has the monopoly now. it’s pretty much impossible for anyone to penetrate that sector now

[@assassinlexx1993]

@@sueschoers4974 China has spy on every country. So let's spy on China. Make what we need in our country.

[@parttime9070]

This has been on Hawaii's radar for 30 years now.. Someone wanted to build a refining plant in Hilo years ago.. It got shot down fast..

[@Jethr001]

why? could they not try to find a friendly way to refine or did ignorant fools just say no?

[@parttime9070]

@@Jethr001 Hawaii is not the place to start a smelting plant, with all the toxic byproducts involved.. not here..

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

Step 1: Turn on CC's Step 2: Skip to 43:40 Step 3: Try not to laugh, I dare you

[@torque-ej4nu]

Nice

[@cristalovelee2353]

Lmao i know right...🧠

[@warrenvillamil658]

German scientists are always pioneers on this field hope your discoveries will benefit not only science but mankind

[@davidashbourn6342]

You aren't paying attention! It's bot only NOT a benefit to mankind, it's a murderous and destructive force that destroying our planet, irradiating water sources and plant life, and killing many many people. All so tweens can take their selfies and put them on Slapshank.

[@williamcloud1683]

Emp the earth!

[@ManMountainMetals]

The fact that he stuck a kitchen plate in a kiln doesn't make me overly hopeful 😂

[@tonyhartness2123]

@@ManMountainMetals I was hoping I wasn't the only one that noticed that. And to actually edit it into the video.

[@thomasriggins1299]

Fact-based , seemingly somewhat non-biased, just technical enough to spark a thought .....these are the qualities that make this documentary great. I wish we had more of these today , hope for more in the future as the times change .

[@bobmitchell8012]

NO, they are Fossil Fuel Haters, they Create a Problem toSolve another.

[@thomasriggins1299]

@@bobmitchell8012 Maybe so, but challenge just creates more innovation. Even if these supplies also have a downside , there is active work going into power storage. Regardless of how the power is generated , humans will need an efficient way to store it. Either way I'm glad we can have a discussion. Would you like to share more from your perspective?

[@christopherross8358]

What might help with rare earth deposit extraction is new regulations focusing on long term use of the product. Unfortunately we (people) are consuming these materials with no regard to the actual supply. By making technology disposable or designing technologies with planned obsolescence, we go through these resources at an unnecessary rate. We used to build things that lasted, and maybe we should return to those standards. Example, I have a Technics stereo system from the early 80's that still works great and out performs most stereos that I can buy today. It should never be the case that 30 - 40 year old technology works better and is more reliable. My stereo still works and out performs new technology because I can plug new technology into it, and because it is repairable. Tech companies need to stop being dicks, that is the solution.

[@SnarfSnarf2]

Someone needs to start a “Hey, don’t be dicks” campaign

[@jupitercyclops6521]

@Darren Ruscoe I couldn't agree more. But it's not just tech companies. It's pretty much every Corp. The auto quitmaking 3.8l motors because they lasted too long. Theu replaced it with a 3.6l which has major issues & barely makes it past warranty.

[@jupitercyclops6521]

Another solution along the same lines is; WE DONT NEED SENSORS FOR WHIPER BLADES! Every driver already had that built in at no charge. It's called EYE SIGHT! They can quit putting chips & sensors in every crack & hole they can stick them in and that will free some up for where they are needed

[@jupitercyclops6521]

@Darren Ruscoe Profit is ok. But profit extreme profit above workers who create the profit & profit that leads to the companies demise is a problem (not to mention profits via buying politicians to fix markets and bail out corps when their profit model puts them out of business must end) Imo. We need have had regulations in place, we need to re examine them as well as the rulings made by courts

[@courtneyhoward9664]

Why explore the deeps of the pacific ocean instead of processing the tailings of our already excavated mines like china did?

[@thomasackerman3995]

As Spock would say indeed. Certain mining tailings in the us are radioactive. Perhaps some have rare earth as well.

The oceanic elements that they were referring to are primarily the manganese nodules, which lie strewn about on the ocean floor.

[@claytonmccormick7506]

good question the quick and dirty answer is that ,when you do that you also concentrate thorium and while thorium itself is not to dangerous it's decay products are kind of nasty and since we do not think of thorium as fuel yet it is a most unwelcome by product rather than a cheap and abundant fuel.

[@prjndigo]

Because the processing of those tailings is *absurdly* toxic, NIMBY.

[@AmyBarnes006]

@@claytonmccormick7506 Yes, but you can't get weapons grade fuel from Thorium.

[@shakekr1750]

These natural elements in these products can't really be destroyed.....recycling is certainly the most feasible option.

[@JohnzeeMr]

It is better to recycle but there is a far better way than that. Not sure about natural elements can't be destroyed for all we know light rare earths may have as high as 50 % to 90 % element degradation while heavy metals might only have as high as 25 % loss.

[@Mrbfgray]

@james morgan Slaves never made wages. Agree recycling isn't always viable but those folks take such jobs because they are the best options they have, take that away and they will be in a worse condition.

[@hybridgoth]

Cerium oxide is often used as a polishing compound Very commonly used to polish glass or gemstones

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Is corundum not good enough?

[@hybridgoth]

@@gregorymalchuk272 good luck polishing corundum with corundum 😉 it's not impossible but it'll take a hell of a long time by comparison

[@cameronbartlett6593]

Oh cool. I'm looking for something to polish my Knob Goblin.

[@donaldjohnson257]

@@cameronbartlett6593 ......If polishing your Knob is what you are after; try a mixture of Crisco with H2SO4 and KMNO4! You won't believe the shine you get! Enjoy!!

[@dr.gordontaub1702]

Only about 27% if wind turbines (by capacity) use a signifigent amount of rare earth metals. Rare earth metals are used because Neodymium can be used to make very powerful fixed magnets, and generators that use fixed magnets, rather than electromagnets can be designed to be efficient at lower rotational speeds. Since large wind turbines generate a lot of torque but rotate relatively slowly, using a generator that is efficient at low speeds allows the engineers to avoid using transmissions. Transmissions used to require a lot of maintenance. But most wind turbine designs do not go this route, and many of the large wind turbine manufactures have become more comfortable designing low maintenance transmissions and are moving away from using Neodymium magnets. The story is similar with electric cars. (Although I know less about them) Not all electric cars require rare earth metals. Their use is a design choice and alternative designs exist. If rare earth metals become too expensive, or pressure is put on the manufactures to use cleaner solutions, the manufactures have designs they can switch to.

[@marbella-elviria]

very true and China benefits from it as they don't have this limitations.

[@mihovillmisha9885]

R on that. Gear box with hydraulics control is being replaced with electric. Induction generator needs no field so i don't know where ree is used.

[@ginabrogan1825]

great explanation. Thank you!

[@dr.gordontaub1702]

​@@mihovillmisha9885 - Yes, induction generators use electromagnets, not fixed magnets and don't use rare earth elements, but to be efficient at low speeds the generator needs to have a lot of poles. And forming these poles out of windings becomes very complex, and it is not practical to fit the necessary number of windings to make an induction motor that will be efficient while rotating at 12 rpm, the rotational frequency of a typical large wind turbine. So if a manufacture choses a wind turbine design with an induction motor, they will also need to include a transmission in their design. As you have indicated in your post, this is no longer an issue as transmission (gearbox) designs have improved. But it was an issue in the past which is why some wind turbine designs used fixed magnets that do use REE rather than induction motors.

[@KbB-kz9qp]

In California, lawn service guys are required this year to stop using gasoline powered tools and switch to electric lawnmowers, weed whack era etc. This sounds good, but in order to keep the various batteries charged, they install a large inverter. Finally, in order to prevent the inverter from draining the battery on the service truck, they need to let the truck sit idling- which of course uses gasoline. 😀

[@oswaldjames6295]

Total BS; isn't it!?😂❤

[@KbB-kz9qp]

@@oswaldjames6295 Oh well, people elect the politicios, and so Californians have the government they deserve. 😀

[@williamvaughan1218]

There are plenty of these materials available in thorium laden mining tailings. We should use the thorium and the rare earth metals.

[@originalketchup7498]

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[@johnknoefler]

I worked at Phoenix Project to restart the mine at Mountain Pass California. It was an exciting project and I'm proud that I could play a small part in the effort to rebuild the plant and make it more efficient.

[@lansky52]

you did fuck all, quit tryna take credit for other peoples work in youtube comment section

[@Paul-gz5dp]

The interesting part about rare earth metals is they are chemically similar in reactions so they can be separated from other elements, and then separated from each other.

[@stevenherrold5955]

this topic fascinates me because i wonder what else is there that remains undiscovered ? and is there a limit to the possibilities or not will this go on into the year 2120 and beyond ? who is the smartest genius that has ever lived now or in the past ? what is unknowable?

[@brettvv7475]

No, that's how good scientists are.

[@hondosmith3172]

Might be 2 million years in the making, but deep sea mineral nodules are easy pickins'. These rare metals precipitate out of seawater and cluster like crystals. So would removing them help to replenish the oceans capacity to remove them from itself?

[@laopang91362]

Manufacturing is a very hard work. First requirement is to find willing and able workers.

[@jari2018]

You got the basic idea.

[@dannydetonator]

@George Cowie There is so many culpable directly or indirectly. By ingnorance.

[@mihiec]

To find workers is easy if you pay well...

[@Ari-pw6nu]

Forgotten technology. Given way to gold so quickly. Look under your corn. Acres of unused land.

[@bunzeebear2973]

We have machines that can do it on the cheap.

[@thomashumphrey4587]

I've been hoping for this documentary to come along. It makes sense.

[@robinwells8879]

If I was wealthy I would be buying up old landfill sites as an investment. In a couple of decades we will probably be exploiting the waste thorium from the old rare earth extraction! Much of today's waste may well prove to be tomorrow's valuable resources.

[@briancam_2000]

Recycling == ENERGY $$$$$$$$$$>>>>You HATE Nuclear Power & LOVE 100% RE==LOVE MINING=Hate Earth. LOGIC!

[@nbnvideo]

@ Robin Wells. I agree. There is enough Thorium in mining “waste” to provide ALL OF THE ENERGY for the whole human race for hundreds of years. And we can do it safely with LFTR power plants.

[@edwardlee2794]

We all have got what we need for our life style. Stop and go no further. No more mining. Turn All material need into a close circuit. Enjoy your gadgets to the end and then recycled all the constituent materials for the next round of gadgets for subsequent consumption. Recycling will be a new respectable profession. And worker a decent living wage. When the supply and demand in close circuit. the faster the recycling Go the more plentiful the supply. People choice remain intact. Thanks for changing the conversation. Keep up with the good work. From Hker worldwide

[@oblivious.clairvoyant5284]

exactly that. We have everything we need or could want and more. I like the 'stop and go no further' . Its true its probably the best way not to mess nature/our planet up farther

[@mannyespinola]

Enlightening and very informative. Thank you for this video

[@davidbaker7617]

Rare Earth also had A couple of great songs has anyone thought of reporposeing old rare earth albums?

[@riseoftheright2501]

Wtf does reporposeing mean 😩

[@lisamichelledrye4080]

@@riseoftheright2501mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmlllllllmmml

[@riseoftheright2501]

@@lisamichelledrye4080 have I entered into the twilight zone or summat

[@BossModeGod]

@@riseoftheright2501 of the grapefruit and the other is a 5ttt5

[@BossModeGod]

G& GG and I will be there in a few minutes to talk to you about it when I get home 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡 6

[@Brandi.Nicole]

Representing Iowa 🌽 🌱 🌽 So very cool to see the people in the beautiful State of Iowa on the leading edge of STEM. 🙌

[@davidrussell6105]

Valuable information not acquired in normal everyday information research. Thank You !

[@macioluko9484]

Well. At least now we know why the traditional car makers are dragging their feet on EVs. Too much work. Leave it to Tesla...

[@forrestwhittakerseye]

And Nio

[@SkashTheKitsune]

ah, no... it's because of the foothold of the oil companies most notably standard oil, then there is the fact that the federal governments won't invest in infrastructure because of the bribes from the oil companies.

[@jamjardj1974]

To be fair they have a bit, but only because they were forced to.

[@macioluko9484]

@@jamjardj1974 Exactly. Just remove Tesla form the equation and I think we'd be talking about how bad hybrids are for the environment to day and how a full EV is a pipedream...

[@RyboBBurn]

"like for example, rare earths."

[@DrLeroyGreen]

"1 ton of rare earth for one 5kw turbine" I'm going to burn my fossil fuel and sleep at night.

[@machone1]

genocide of the Uyghurs is the problem,slave labor&harvesting organs from the living. Few know!

[@bigjay6743]

So let me get this straight the more green we go the more damage we need to do to Mother Earth how does this make any sense.

[@chele-chele]

Exactly! Sad but the green movement is really a farce. Take for example Costa Rica, the greenest country on the planet according to them. They use more herbicides and pesticides per hectare than any other country on Earth! They also have open sewers which results in about 75% of the country's raw sewage flowing out the mouth of the Tarcoles River and into the Pacific. Changing lifestyle and consumer habits will save the planet, not more rare earth minerals!

[@cerimite7674]

This is essential that we have more scientific understanding of the quantum sciences. The complexities at the quantum realm has a physics in the subatomic, atomic, and the larger particles is still little understood. Our finite world needs a cooperation with all of mankind's population to solve these issues. It could be that rare earth metals are of a lesser importance. We are to focused on research and less on financial profits.

[@davidgraham2673]

Big Jay, Exactly what I was thinking. The greener we go, the stronger the poisons we release back into the environment; and we pat ourselves on the back for it.

[@ChessMasterNate]

I guess you skipped over where Tesla does not use them. And you missed recycling, and the American reopened mine's cleaner operation. Hear what you want to hear and ignore the rest? Just because something is complex and requires a lot of care, does not mean it can't be reasonably clean. Everything has costs. Compared to coal and oil, I will take green over this any day. And that thorium needs to be used in thousands of molten salt reactors. Probably will be...in 20 years.

[@chele-chele]

@@ChessMasterNate Hear what you want to hear and ignore the rest? Practice what you preach Nate, the molten salt reactors are a failed science, Spain gave up on it and so have the other players. The real key is a shift in consumer values and careful use of our limited resources. The byproducts and carbon footprint of most green energy is larger than the resulting savings until such time that green energy can produce the alternative options, follow me?? As it sits we are digging our own grave. I walk nearly everywhere, use mass transit, cook with natural gas and use very little electricity. Our carbon footprint is probably 10% or less than the average household, this is what will save the planet. 150Kwh per month is peanuts in use and walking is good for you...

[@lucapuzzoli8363]

I did not know about this rare hearth materials but I know this Today silver is invaluable to solder and brazing alloys, batteries, dentistry, glass coatings, LED chips, medicine, nuclear reactors, photography, photovoltaic (or solar) energy, RFID chips (for tracking parcels or shipments worldwide), semiconductors, touch screens, water purification, wood preservatives and many more things. That is why you should own some!!

[@originalketchup7498]

You should own some because it fluctuates at 100% of its historical (pre 2008 crash) average, gold barely moves within 30%

[@moek28]

gold is more efficient

[@larrycarmody8325]

A new battery made with RE will almost run forever

[@martinphilip8998]

My old silver amalgam filings have nearly all fallen out. Go with the newer dental chemistry. It won’t look like you have a mouthful of metal, because you won’t.

[@robertcallaghan4029]

A 5 megawatt wind turbine contains 800 kilograms of neodymium and 200 kilograms of dysprosium, or ton of rare earth each. The latest turbines need up to 4 tons of rare earth metals each. Giant wind turbine blades are made with 7,000 lbs of epoxy glue and fiberglass. You can see them made on Discovery UK on YT.

[@minnesotagal507]

Nuclear power is the future.

[@bunzeebear2973]

800kg +200kg = 1 tonne (1 ton=2000pounds) 1 tonne=2,200pounds (commonly referred to as "long ton"). IT MATTERS . If 10 turbines were put up, you would be missing 2000pounds of rare earth....you paid for 10 but only 9 work.

[@flashgordon3715]

Now that I'm seeing just how much effort and energy it takes to produce the elements needed for solar, I'm more convinced solar power is a lie.

[@hatwarm]

Also the waste from the manufacturing of the panels are "forever toxic" no one talks about that. Solar panels cannot be recycled either

[@theobserver9131]

What a ridiculous statement.

[@theobserver9131]

@@mikesmith4334 Prager University, is an American media company that creates videos on various political, economic, and philosophical topics from an American conservative perspective. The organization was co-founded by Allen Estrin and talk show host and writer Dennis Prager] The organization relies on donations, and much of its early funding came from fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks.

[@theobserver9131]

Solar and wind may not turn out to be the the best solution, but they represent an attempt to find answers we need. Even if you deny the devastation caused by fossil fuels, they're going to run out. We need to support research and development of sustainable alternatives. Using hyperbolic and provocative language like "Lies" is not helpful. If you're looking for lies, the petroleum industry has plenty to pick from.

[@theobserver9131]

@@mikesmith4334 Prager U is not going to give you an unbiased point of view.

[@onlyweknow2]

Wow going to save the planet .... Your my Hero!

[@SanguineBlackBlood]

In school these were the ones I was most interested in.

[@amistenson2535]

Me too.

[@kkarlsson1971]

Ransacking the ocean is no worse than what we do on dry land. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't scenario.

[@bazd3926]

Ransacking the ocean is far worse than on land. The unique ecosystems that have evolved around geothermal vents will be destroyed. The waste plume will cover huge areas with a toxic layer killing filter feeders. Ocean mining will be the coup de grace for the oceans .

[@tomkelly8827]

The most rich source of minerals comes from the ash from garbage incineators. I would love to see more waste recovery going on. Mining is fine but there is no need to take more then we need

[@alexcarter8807]

Just vacuuming up the dust from roadways yields a very rich ore - platinum from cat. converters.

[@prjndigo]

We're letting China turn itself into an uninhabitable toxic wasteland.

[@danisyx5804]

But the greedy like the stockpile these things so they can control the price The problem is that the means of production the ownership of resources have been taken away from the people and given to the limited few

[@danisyx5804]

@@prjndigo letting or demanding?

[@claidheamhdalaimh3694]

@@prjndigo "We" are not "letting" China turn itself into anything. They are doing it to themselves.

[@aa2339]

Great video! There are others out there featuring their recycling from consumer products.

[@MrShaun1011]

SG/436 pill yellow

[@williammcduffie2853]

I have a well for my drinking water and the water has a lot of manganese in it that turns my toilet tanks black. I live in Southwest Iowa. Could there be rare Earth metals around my well?

[@charlesstevensEnki]

They started their own rock group. Rare Earth makes great music 🎶

[@roadsidetees2024]

Canada's oil sands are rich in rare earths, especially lithium. It's just sitting there in massive tailings ponds.

[@drmodestoesq]

Also, the boiler ash from the burning of coal has very high levels of rare earths. In addition, the red mud...a byproduct of refining bauxite into alumina is high in rare earths. Both of these byproducts are available in the millions of tonnes. More of a environmental hazard than anything you would have to pay money for. Fun fact: Rare Earth was the first White band to be signed by Motown.

[@houstongalloway6380]

Lithium is not a rare earth metal.

[@randybobandy9828]

Lithium isn't considered rare earth element

[@mVpkilla93]

Where ?

[@marymwende580]

I really like your documentaries .

[@blskys]

Very insightful video and encouraging showing new developments. Thank You

[@bobrobert6277]

12:40 nice "corn" field

[@ChingFong58]

Right...not corn..

[@StanHowse]

Wtff... Such bad writing.

[@QqJcrsStbt]

Corn in Europe refers to wheat, barley, oats, spelt...as well as corn on the cob (which is grown mainly for cattle food this side of the pond).

[@AllynDoyle-up3jt]

Thanks Chris for all the good work so blow it up not literally but you can expose more than I can with your equipment love your show man keep it comin

[@joebrake1141]

I liked the way he referred to Tesla as a small American electric sport car manufacturer. So now four years later they are building multi-billion dollar manufacturing plants in many different countries. Nine years ago their stock was selling for $20 dollars per share, and they hadn't built a single vehicle.

[@danielash1704]

Germany has rare earth there really good at mining it like gold or oil valuable .

[@7Trident3]

Canada also has plenty, only China is willing to take the toxic hit to process it.

[@CHMichael]

There is no mining in Germany anymore. Environmentalist will prevent any future mining. And mining is the easy part.

[@rebekah1216]

Mountain pass reopened at some point because my ex husband worked there in 2011-213 with Bodell Construction building turbine engines on site and had to wear Radon alert patches for the radioactive possibility.....he became deathly ill for two months primarily in his respiratory system. But doctors never did find the cause, he eventually had to find new work because of it....and get this,. The safety inspector had to quit after he developed Guillain-Barre syndrome from a routine flu shot and lost his ability to walk!!

[@garybulwinkle82]

Take those shots at your own risk!! I am highly skeptical of these pharmaceutical companies; many are run by nefarious individuals that I distrust! I'm also concerned that the federal Government removed all liability from these companies!! So it should be every individuals personal choice!!! I do not get flu shots!

[@peterparker9286]

@@garybulwinkle82 You said it Ne farious there is alot going on in this world today for sure... no wu shots for this guy either doing just fine.

[@peterparker9286]

@@garybulwinkle82 There a bunch of Merlins and sorcery wizards that is for sure. The amount of autism and peanut allergies these days is no coincedence....

[@mikeday5776]

I remember reading about magnesium nodules on the ocean floor fifty years ago in a children’s encyclopaedia.

[@anonymous.youtuber]

Manganese, symbol Mn Magnesium, symbol Mg You’re welcome. 🖖

[@nazirulnaim5418]

To save the Earth, you must sometimes destroy it "partially" 😅😅, It's a vicious cycle, perhaps it's the lesser of two evil.

[@maozedung7270]

No, you have to destroy nothing...sit quite and meditate.

[@sasalijoon3506]

25 years ago I travelled to China, then I found out western countries should be very careful of China

[@shaunwhalen6653]

Maybe we need to rethink our way of life.

[@thebluedan]

Leave the city and live within nature

[@Freeknickers24]

Maybe hell

[@sagebiddi]

Agreed. We also need to come up with a Nobel type of consortium and make a prize for "Understatements Of The Year" and give it your namesake and 2nd place can be "Be kind to one another/treat others how you want to treated" lol

[@danlee1739]

Y'think?

[@psycronizer]

er, we have , we've told China to go fuck itself and we'll take our business to countries that don't steal tech, assassinate ex nationals, bribe and extort anyone that they can for financial gain. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

[@koltoncrane3099]

It’s weird they said they have a small deposit in Germany and then will only do a shaft mine because an open pit is taboo. Without an open pit it’s impossible for them to mine it all out if it’s just randomly throughout. They could do what modern countries do and just have a company with a reclamation bond mine it and then reclaim it.

[@johnwolf2829]

The enviroMental-cases may as well be working for the CCP. But when the checks start to bounce, the mines can open again.

[@crabby7668]

And yet they will construct an open pit for a coal mine, that they hypocritically tell everyone else not to do, even knocking down windmills to do so. Strange priorities.

[@rickjensen2833]

And one of my favorite albumns growing up , rare earth , "get ready"

[@stephenrocks7004]

I have lived here for 65 years and have spent over 30 years in this place. While looking for gold I found all kinds of minerals, no gold. But I found a place that kept my metal detector very busy. I sent in a sample of a black rounded heavy stone tripping the metal detector quite often. After collecting a few pounds I sent in a sample for testing. As this was years ago 98% manganese and the rest iron. There was enough iron to be effective to a small magnet. On the desert ground there was no gold but a lot of nodules of manganese. At the time it was “BLM” and could be claimed as a mine. Wish I had the will to claim it all now.!

[@rorybailey3279]

Great insight to rare earth

[@MaxB6851]

Australia has more Lithium deposits than every other country that mines it, combined. We also have large deposits of Lanthanum.

[@benwilms3942]

Well, when you're awesome....

[@haparoundthehouse6618]

Yes but is Australia willing to wreak havoc on it's environment/citizen to produce it so a few corporations can make BIG $$$ selling it to make super cheap electronic consumer goods?

[@bendarbyjones172]

Yippee! We die first then!

[@justinrodyk575]

Our great country should stand alone from the rest of the world We have everything here! Ban foreign mining our country stop selling our country short

[@mastercreamer1398]

You don’t even know!

[@jaymeselliot8181]

12:38 Wheat is now C O R N

[@gregorymalchuk272]

"Corn" has historically been a generic term for "grain". "Maize" is the word for what Americans call corn. "Indian corn" is another equivalent word.

[@JoeBuk724]

Great video, very informative. Im glad there are people working on this stuff.

[@victorhopper6774]

lot of things not accurate. there are mountains full of rare earths all over the planet, just no envirenmental standards and dirt cheap labor in china is why they are refined there, this is well known not a secret.

[@precisiont5188]

This is a good non bias documentary.

[@squeek5810]

Great review , regards to you from Australia .

[@desrumeauxjeansebastien7336]

8:37 don't forget the seabed ecosystems are a part of several chains which are often neglected.

[@alexcarter8807]

I wonder how many tons of rare earths are thrown away in the form of people throwing away their broken earphones?

[@lukeskydropper]

Tell what this Confounded earphone is?

[@dyzoly]

So from this documentary we learn that there's a pretty girl in every lab.

[@alexhayden2303]

Just my bad luck not to work in the right labs!

[@Stuff_happens]

Also rare earths make stuff. Think they mentioned that once or twice.

[@dyzoly]

@@Stuff_happens No way! You think so? :)

[@Restless_Hermit80]

Yes, and contamination by, oh I don't know, hair.... is not an issue at all.

[@michaelrose93]

It's easy; you put an in the local college, the pick and choose among the respondents. With any luck, you get someone pleasant to look at, which is always nice.

[@rameshkumaragarwal8077]

It is good to know that Tesla doesn't use rare earth in its manufacturing. By the way it is not a small company as you said.

[@steve-o6413]

You need to read between the lines, it may not Manufacture rear earth components, but that doesn't mean that the components they purchase doesn't have rear earth elements...

[@rameshkumaragarwal8077]

@@steve-o6413 I agree. My comment was related to that part of video when commentator said that Tesla places their motors in such a way that it doesn't need those powerful Magnet which are manufactured using Rare Earth Minerals.

[@gebeshebe4446]

This is crazy. You know, a famous scientist from the past turned a Pierce Arrow car into a battery-less electric with out the need fir rare earths. Whats rare is that sort of genius. Add some vegetable oil and you have a green car.

[@vaccinefraud5570]

Good point. Henry Ford made a lot of his parts from hemp and soy. If you pour vegetable oil on those then Vegans might even recycle their cars by eating them.

[@goldenmeanphaseconjunction313]

@@vaccinefraud5570 was that after he thought of Pre-obsolescence

[@goldenmeanphaseconjunction313]

And created a whole new branch of the automobile industry?

[@sikkableeat5614]

Take a drink every time he says "rare earths"

[@SuperPatruch]

Im pissed he didnt even explain in the beginning what “rare earths” are yet he kept saying it lol !

[@johnryan2193]

The Illusion of Growth would be a better name for this program .

[@bendarbyjones172]

Yep, the reality is destruction.

[@labrat748]

Known REE deposits are few in number for now but in time new & important discoveries will undoubtedly arise. It's also plain to see there's huge pollution problems associated with REE mining which will become a massive worldwide environmental issue in decades to come.

[@victorhopper6774]

thousands of them , whole mountains of them. this is about who will do it cheapist

[@NondescriptMammal]

WELL I'M CONVINCED, THE PLANET IS SAVED! YAY!

[@danielpeterson5413]

Like the mass of one in Wisconsin. The one no one has open up but they know it is there because they tested. 15 miles wide 45 miles long.

[@RushinVr6]

What's in Wisconsin?

[@raphaelshan4905]

Chinese must to watch this document the restrictions of rare earth production will back fire to them.

[@Zelp789]

The world should mine the moon. There are rare earth's on the moon. This is why we need to prioritize space agencies and stop worrying about costs, because the investment of moon mining will pay off.

[@SDups]

just painted some Rare earths into my oil painting

[@TheBushMaster]

Ref 20:15 He said the world population is 7 billion and in 40 years it would increase by 2 - 3 billion. 5 years later the world's population is 8 billion. We're in such trouble!

[@jamie0]

It was 7bil in 2011, not 5yrs ago. He was just saying generally.

[@donaldmichaellumsden2714]

I'm not very impressed with wind turbines since I heard how they work . I heard that wind turbines are VERY noisey . Someone told me that he had an old house that. had been in the family for many yr . It was next to the ocean . One day the gov. came and put a wind tubine in his front yard . It immediately start to make an extremly loud noise , that sounded like a DC 9 taking off . ( a DC 9 is a WW !! Troop carrier ) airplane He said it was impossible to sleep because of the noise . It got so bad the chickens stopped laying eggs , the cow stopped giving milk , and the dog started to bite . So he went to court to sue the gov. But lost his case . After that he tried to sell the house , but nobody would buy it . Eventually he just moved out and went to live somewhere else . If You watch this video , You will notice that when they show The wind turbines they are not turning , and the sound is turned off . Now You know the reason why . DML

[@lansky52]

The rarest more valuable element is element 115. It can bend light and create a gravitational field. But only the stable isotope of element 115.

[@andybaldman]

Keep smoking, dude.

[@weirdbeard1980]

@@andybaldman Element 115 is on the periodic table and has shown these properties.

[@andybaldman]

@@weirdbeard1980 Right. Did you see that on the Discovery Channel?

[@weirdbeard1980]

@@andybaldman National inquirer. Read it while fashioning a new tin foil hat

[@peterparker9286]

What is 115 moscovium or seaborium or unuptonium ? I am going to have to look it up...

[@kenleach2516]

Tesla motors with no rare earth elements! Wow

[@dennisroland5654]

Excellent! However, there was no mention of the CO2 cost of recycling operations to recover the rare earths in mobile phones and the like.

[@mrwang420]

not as much damage as cars burning fuel. By a long shot. There are like only a couple mines. There are BILLIONS of gas burning vehicles. How anyone equates lithium mining as being worse then the cars idk.

[@mrwang420]

plus more and more mining companies are swapping out gas for propane. Which mostly creates water as an emission. And mines only have a couple trucks driving around. a single city has like at least a million vehicles driving around. The difference is massive.

[@Johnny-dp5mu]

CO2 is the most important product in our air!!!! We need much much more than we currently have in the air... Currently 0.04--0.05 % of our air is very small and it is necessary plant life AND oxygen which is necessary for animal life ... Think US... All the very best

[@anthonykenny1320]

how unbelievable at 49.47 he says the chinese dissolve the THORIUM and then throw it away hasn't any one heard of thorium reactors

[@BlondieSuperdog]

A huge open pit mine in germany isn't an option? Have you been to Koln - never saw the coal mine there? One of the largest open pit mines on earth?

[@bunzeebear2973]

Let's say it was found in NYC. Open pit mine is the cheapest option and takes out 5 square MILES of downtown. Buildings are pushed over as waste rock overburden. Not an option, is it?

[@BlondieSuperdog]

@@bunzeebear2973 Depends if the value of the city is lower than the ore. This is not in a city it is not even far from the existing coal mine

[@BlondieSuperdog]

@@bunzeebear2973 Besides most of NYC should be turn down even if there isn't anything there - total dump.

[@bigjd2k]

Without rare earths we’d still have the modern tech we have today, but it would be bigger and bulkier. But it would still exist.

[@mambobado3620]

How can these elements be humanity's future when they are already rare without being exploited?

[@jamjardj1974]

Great point, what happens when all the elements have been mined to death and are no longer viable to be recycled?

[@Ari-pw6nu]

They are not "rare". They are abundant and discarded for many centuries. Difficult to process into greater forms. But, rare. We must cook it a bit longer. Together.

[@deescobie9696]

Watch the video. They are not rare, but they tend to occur together in nature and are difficult to separate from one another, not rare as in scarce.

[@billyray323]

Attacking the oceans for materials, is not sensible, it's counterintuitive, the seas are where all life comes from, it's the centre of all natural environmental beginnings. We're already fishing the seas to extinction etc. Recycling has to be the way ahead, also other alternatives to our current processes, which contaminate all environments, eventually those end of the world films/movies will become a real life experience in the future.

[@jimrobcoyle]

Mining and the regulation of fish harvests are not incompatible. "Attack" is unproductive hyperbole.

[@waynesmith733]

The infinite one Yahushua is gonna destroy those who destroy the Earth

[@blueskybanshee8013]

Pretty sure there's a bunch of it outback here in Australia 👍

[@zaneh6224]

Correct, Australia is the only place outside China that has the raw materials and is teaming up with US companies to alleviate the worlds reliance on China to supply and manipulate the market

[@terryjohnson3477]

It all depends on what kind of chemical compounds you use to extract what type of metals you want since lava is made up of everything the earth is made up of even has all the gases you pump out the earth or try to create