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To: St. John Smythe who wrote (96145)	10/31/2012 4:59:44 PM
From: dan6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219335

"Magpie’s technology can also be used to leach out harmful metals such as lead, mercury, cobalt, copper and uranium. “Obviously the amounts are much bigger. The problem is that nobody wants to pay for something that has no value,” said Almoric." This seems to be a place where government can, and perhaps, should, step in, to pay for things that benefit everyone, i.e. like cleaning up industrial messes, where the private markets lack a profit motive, and the costs can't be pinned back onto the people who make the messes.