Rare Earth Elements: China's Vibranium? 

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Clever 😎

It litterally isn't though

@@nidhalsormali3051 I literally don't care.

Actually the vibrating motor in phones do use rare earth elements so... maybe?

He means, THAT vibrator

It is same vibrating motor in a phone and in a vibrator. And actually, there is a phone, that can be used as a vibrator. Many have used it so and even a British journalist tested it and wrote that it was perfectly satisfactory, pun intended.

Just trying to keep things PG sheesh

@Atlas Pro. What you mean? If you think something, I can't help it. ;) I meant hand-held vibrator to massage your muscles, what did you think of? It's nice that you read the comments.

Just click your fingers

Oh god.....Is Infinity War coming to real life?

@@loop5720 Yes. The fallen ones are back and preparing mankind for the great battle of Armegeddon against God. An American general proclaimed they could shoot Jesus down if He came back today. As it once was, so shall it be. As in the days of Noah....

Hahahaha. It is hyperbole.

It was not a lie, after all

He's closing to 150k now!

180k!

Approaching 200k now.

@@prashantvicky 253k

Almost 300k

I honestly hope they don't do it

Stop wasting resources on useless stuff. The solution is so simple yet so difficult.

Why should Australia go all the way to Malaysia when they claimed to have their own rare earth?

@@thomthlee Aussie is processing rare earth metal in Malaysia that was extracted in Australian soil

@@ernestchuaforever13 basically dumping all the heavy metals on us. Fuck them

Thanks man! I appreciate the love :)

True, there's literally millions of aluminum cans littered around the world and would be very useful to try to recycle all of it cuz aluminum is 50% conductive efficiency and great metal alloy for strength materials etc

might be the best comment I've ever gotten lol

Atlas Pro What about this comment?

Because wildlife organizations want to protect the land above the REEs. REE mining is extremely damaging to ecosystems.

They want China to use up its resources and the us hordes theirs

k2d10tode11 US doesn't have a lot of rare earth deposit. Small quantities are found in US.

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cost cost cost...chinese minor willb e always cheaper than american one, i know you try hard to reduce cost in importing illegal labor per million :p but chinese can do the same with importing asian indian minor !!

Franklin Allen You dont call that essential?!

@@Ambigious I don't. I think the trend towards smaller, more expensive, and easier to break devices is just idiotic. Also given that I can't tell the difference in performance between my five year old HTC One running optimised cfw, and my new Pixel, I think the development has stagnated to the point that the only difference between devices are gimmicks at best.

If you cant tell tthe diffrence between a new phone and 5 year old phone I dont think youre the one to speak about that makes a diffrence tbh

@@Ambigious I think your missing the point. With optimised firmware you can get a five year old flagship phone to perform in a manner indistinguishable from a new flagship phone running new, non-optimised firmware. The increase in processing power and features have been such minor iterations over the last five years that they are negligible at best. The only reason I even have the new phone is because it is my job to stay at the forefront of technology.

So in other words, your iphone becomes the size of macbook? So you think customers would be fine holding a laptop to their ears to make phone calls? LOL

Agreed!

Don't talk silly, that would stop the gravy train for GE. Never gonna happen.

I've always wondered why we don't have such Thorium Reactors already. I've heard that the waste cannot be used to make weapons but I don't know how true this is. Is Thorium really such a good choice for nuclear energy or is this just hype from 'big thorium', so to speak?

@@sirsiralot7635 Thorium reactors produce U233 which is what undergoes the chain reaction and which can and has been used in prototype nuclear bombs. Apparently the issue is that some U232 is also produced in the reactor and this has to be almost completely removed. Plutonium bombs are a lot less finicky.

because it's cheaper. And honestly no one nation really cared about other nation's life if is not profitable. If US mine it's own mine that will be much more expensive.

And then they can keep saying China is more polluted country as political advantage.

Scaling down the industry is not the same as limiting the export quota. Also, mining REE is not the only reason that makes china so heavily populated.

@@Kentrantran Of course, the 2 points you raise is not correlated in the factor of 1 to 1 fashion, but there the correlation is significant enough to be notable. limiting the export quota will significantly reduce the demand curve (shift it leftward), thus the overall supply will also drop accordingly when the new equilibrium is reached - (i'm refering to alot of economic concepts here). And regards to pollution too, of course im not blaming mining REE to have 100% of the responsibility, but it contributes to it, so i rest my case

@@Xind0898 here is my opinion, limiting the export quota only mean that the other countries can't get access to cheap REE from China. Since most of the electrical stuffs are made in China nowadays (and limiting the export quota doesn't make people stop wanting electrical items). The demanding of REE will not be reduced (firms still need it to make stuffs, you know). This strategy existed only to assure that tech companies can't leave China and work with other countries who also have cheap labor like India or Pakistan, etc. That is why US, EU and JPN doesn't like it.

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that too is shifting...

Africa? LOL! That continent is already being mined for many years, China is already sucking up lots of rare metals there. As for India their nation will only become more SHITTIER than it already is.

Not the case.

I really appreciate it!

@YK KAO you see, opening mines has a huge cost, especially if you want them to be safe and environmentally friendly, it also takes quite a while, if the US or any other country starts onpening mines and china catches wind of it they could remove the export limitations to make those mines unprofitable again, so its actually a big risk, its only really worth it if china either bans exports almost completly or if they start to run out.

Build thorium fueled molten salt reactors and the problematic thorium becomes a more valuable product then the rare earths themselves.

Yeah we can't even get stable internet services how can we trust radioactive waste disposal? The will just dump it in old alabama mines.

@@gladehartdreamer5620 wouldnt everyone just mine old electronics then? In that case the metals are already refined and the plastics just have to be crushed and separated?

@@Patchuchan If you have to build a radically new, untested, nuclear reactor type to make the fuel more valuable, that would be the tail wagging the dog.

It's apparently a scandium-aluminum alloy.

Glad you enjoyed!

deenr qqwe: Indium is necessary for touch panels. No indium, goodbye smart phones, etc. Electric cars are unquestionably the wave of the future, as are windmills. Both *require* neodymium, as do powerful magnets when used in pretty much any application. Although this video doesn't address it, Thorium is likely to power the future. Molten Fuel Reactors (often referred to as MSRs) such as LFTRs, are the future of clean nuclear power, and people who tell you that there is no such thing as clean, safe nuclear, don't know what they're talking about. I recommend Gordon McDowell's fine channel on next gen reactors, especially thorium reactors.

Thanks man! I really appreciate it :) Maybe I'll get there one day

wow...

But they don't mine Rare earth material , neither have infrastructure for manufacturing yet

Dont allow them i dont want scam calls in the future

India needs roads, tracks, ports, and most importantly, *TOILETS* .

@@iamyoda7917 fun facts is these gypsy's have toilet they don't like to use it, simply because they don't believe in concept of sleeping and passing motion in same place or with in 30 metres.

They don't believe in sanitation?

Drake DeVaugn Yes but the thing is are they ready for the environmental impact as well? Are the Philippine Eagles ready to go on the extinction list? Can Japan mine rare metals that are buried 12,000 ft. below the sea?

The main reason China dominates rare earth metals is because they used price dumping to kill the competition and their government subsidizes the mines. Low cost rare earths was one of the reasons they were able to come to dominate the consumer electronics industry despite not using as much automated manufacturing as countries like Japan and South Korea. But their mines have started to run out of economically viable ores which is why they cut exports and now seek sources in places like Africa. If China runs out of cheap rare earth they loose much of their edge esp with their labor costs going up.

@anshu lieyi Which would be fine if they would develop their own tech rather than stealing it from others.

yes and we do that already

@@EvanHT share the tech then ?!?!...for some profit ie.

KAWAIIDDF yeah but he forgot Congo

Yeah... they also have 're-education' camps for religious people, but people don't talk about that either. (Also, people do talk about china's renewables, anybody knows that).

China is a very polluting country that is trying very hard not to be. So calling it both environmentally destructive and environmentally progressive isn't inaccurate.

​@Di Di june 4th tiananmen square massacre

well said!

@Di Di your basically saying ethnic cleansing is okay? Yep um you type of people is What's wrong with humanity

Nahh forgot that

Yeah, and thats a good thing! We are way to dependent on China as it is.

This World Trade Organization seems very shady and very one-sided. USA, EU, and Japan vs China. Apparently they can bully nations into sharing some resources (like radioactives and rare earths). But can't bully nations into sharing other resources (like petroleum).

@@pwnmeisterage or maybe it is because China has a history of cheating which the others don't? China plays fair when it is forced to play fair. The excuse is "we need to build up our industry". That was fine 50 years ago. Now what they're doing is extortion on a grand scale. They seek monopolistic control pretty much across the board.

@@john3pq or USA cheating on china. The boxer war stole china's wealth to fund many companies like AT&T and other companies. It even helped develope new york to become a industralize city with huge buildings.

@@ayingchanda : What happened a century and more ago is well in the past. What has happened and continues to happen to the present is not. China simply does not follow the same international rules which the other nations follow in the 21st century. They continue to lie, cheat and steal so extensively that it is clear that it is an intentional aspect of nation policy. One has only to look at her claims to the South China Sea - We won't militarize anything... But my, what pretty military bases they have constructed! And to suggest that they have ownership of the entire South China Sea to the exclusion of all of the other neighboring nations is simply a farce. Even if they had a claim hundreds of years ago, the world has moved on. We see what happens in the Balkans and the Middle East when people continue to fight wars over claims which are centuries old; China's policy is simply the same - trying to go back to what existed (maybe, and that's a really BIG maybe...) hundreds of years ago but which has not existed in any remotely modern times is simply absurd. There is a difference between a government and a region. The current Chinese government has no proper claim to the region, and the previous governments no longer exist. If anything, assuming the Chinese logic, then Taiwan has the better claim by far... No, the Central Kingdom is not going to be the ruler of the world, nor does Chinese ancestry mean that you are a subject of the tyrannical kleptocracy which is the Chinese Communist Party. What happened at Tienanmen Square, what is happening in Hong Kong, and the disappearance of hundreds since Xi entered the picture graphically demonstrates the moral, ethical and legal corruption of the Chinese government. They did that all on their own, and certainly not at the behest of the West.

@@john3pq there is a reason WHY China wants the South China Sea, it is because of the US military base and lili pad base built around her. Youre very one sided on this, as always its you stupid fools who listen to western medias more and just be one sided and not even giving a damm about China's side. China needs the the south china sea is to counter American military bases around her. They, china, already built one in spratly's island. China does not have a choice shes a super power and by the looks of it USA doesnt want her(USA) power threatened.

Not so much for the consumer

@@silvers2211 Ik, but I meant for the companies in US which has their manufacturing plants there.

@@Blitzkrieg63 Yeah I'm opposed to monopolies be it by from the U.S or China.

Hawai*

Nidhal Sormali *hawaii, *huawei

Little profit? Yeah lol Neodynium was used on all modern gadget , car and airplanes.

It is total legitimate for a country to protect the resources and people living on top of it!!! Did you ever see US share their resource to the world cheaply?? Hypocrisy!!

@@justmanuel2000 NO. China made trade agreements with other countries, which gave them free access to those markets then broke those agreements with the export quotas. They can't have it both ways.

@@BobbyIronsights First, US had done so many contract breaking in the world but still wanted the benefit from it. Without showing evidence which you claimed, it just a BS of your comment.

@@justmanuel2000 They said it in the video, that's all the evidence he needs. Also the Us did share their resources to the world cheaply in a time called the industrial revolution. Dude, do you seriously not know basic history? I'm not sure how the education system is where you're from but I learned this in middle school. If you didn't know about this I highly recommend watching some documentaries and learning about world history before going online and trying to argue with people.

@@traceletz6786 I also learned about Columbus discover America too. This is the problem of US education. They only tell you some true but not all. Go to study the history from other countries who describe truly about Americans' history.

I know, right? It's so hypocritical.

That’s Right. What kind of red-blooded ‘Merican r u anyway? Oh, wait. There’s no such thing as an American genetic subgroup?? You mean the “American” BY DEFINITION is a complex admixture of other races and genetic leftovers??? That sounds like something they would teach you in one of those Socialist Ivory Tower institutions they call Universities. Wait, you’re not even an American?? You’re from some Foreign Country?? What Audacity you have, coming on our National Airwaves telling us The Facts about World Politics?..? Don’t you know that WE RUN THE WORLD NOW!, ITS CALLED THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD, BABY!! If you don’t like it, go find another Planet, Bucko!

@@alanwerner8563 You think its American hegemony that's at stake? Every country in the world worries about overdependence of imports/exports into one country. But you wouldn't know that because you never bothered to pick up a book or look through economic articles. A few years back China tried to destroy Japan's electronics industry by suddenly cutting off its rare earth metal exports to Japan. Joke's on them, the Japanese just brought out new technologies that rely less on rare earth metals or tried to find new exporters and many Chinese export companies died out instead.

What a joke question if an American. Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to have resources that your military or economic rival does or does not. What a privileged life you lead…worry about pronouns too?

@ofcv1238 Seems like you worry more about pronouns than I do since you brought it up from nowhere. Completely off topic too, it's like the concept of that lives inside your head rent free.