Regarding the Bloomberg articleMankind is a vesitile entity unto it's own. The moment you think you have the world in your hand, a new invention of some kind comes along and knocks you off your old pedestal. Look what AE is doing, and is going to do to the world. Just a few years ago in Scandinavia, a new sand battery has been designed and is in use.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-how-a-sand-battery-could-transform-clean-energy
It's time governments learned to help develope and fund what is available in their nation. For example, in the USA, there was 1 single mine for rare earth metals, and they got no support for years. Now I read that the US military has finally stepped in. Here is what I found
As of 2022, work is ongoing to restore processing capabilities for domestic light rare-earth elements (LREEs) and work has been funded by the United States Department of Defense to restore processing capabilities for heavy rare-earth metals (HREEs) to alleviate supply chain risk.
Because we in the west have learned to think on our own, develope and invent things on our own, and have created
through the art of economic entrepreneurship all kinds of
necessary functioning wonderful creations that have propelled us to where we are, we shall prevail. We are not the copycats, we are the inventors.
EK