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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (75908)	5/25/2010 1:26:35 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

"Because I've got news for you....the rest of the country ain't ready to do it and we can't afford it financially to import all our oil" I don't know why that's so hard to understand. It's at least a 20 year crash project..if it's even possible. I don't get it either. UN warns rare metal shortage could derail clean tech boom Failure to improve recycling rates of metals such as lithium and gallium could leave them "essentially unavailable" for use in solar panels, electric cars and other clean technologies What we also have to do, and Chu brought it up on the Maddow show, is to increase the utilization of uranium when its fueling nukes so that we have much less radioactive material left over to dispose of. It will make nuclear energy less 'dirty'. Metals such as lithium, neodymium and gallium all play crucial roles in the development of many clean technologies. But according to a new preliminary report from the UN's International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, recycling rates for these metals currently stand at around one per cent. That's a crime. Tea baggers are worried about debt when we should be worried about pissing away our resources and leaving nothing for future generations.