Gerard Barron

which goes into a battery.

So we've been working on that for some time.

There's no real magic to doing it.

You just got to do it.

But at the moment, there is zero industry.

And to make manganese silicon, we import 100% of that in from China at the moment.

But to be able to build that right next door to a reliable supply of manganese is more jobs.

We don't make much stainless steel here in America because we import the iron ore, we import the nickel, and we import the manganese.

So all of a sudden, there is a pathway to be able to generate that.

You know, the material that goes into the stainless steel and the steelmaking industry.

It's like all of these things are very interconnected.

And then when it comes to nickel, I mean, firstly, it's a super alloy.

So you need it for, you know, in these beautiful planes that we see the U.S.

Air Force flying around.

Nickel is a vital ingredient, as is cobalt.

in those structures but there's a lot of simpler industries as well you know whether it's um energy related businesses solar um in fact i i have a page on one of my presentations there's literally a thousand industries that a thousand industries thousand that depend on nickel cobalt manganese or copper as an important input import and i think

Because at the end of the day, one of the great things we've learned from people like Elon Musk is how to get in and drive cost out of processes.

He'll look at things and go, well, the bill of materials says $100.

Why am I paying $5,000 for this?

And of course, that's what's enabled him to build rockets and cars and everything else much more economically.