Turner Caldwell
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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Like, the DOD, obviously, again, just did this big deal with MP Materials.
Yeah.
And actually, like, went all the way to kind of participating in the cap table or as an equity holder.
But when you receive federal funds from the DOE or if you receive federal funds from, like, you know, on the debt side of things, from XM...
It comes with some like additional burden sometimes.
Like if you are building on state land and you just need a state permit and then you bring in federal funds, you now bump your permitting requirement to a federal level permit.
And that's the NEPA process, which, you know, again, the process wouldn't be as burdensome if there was some more efficiency on the permitting side of things.
Yeah, we're starting in the US because it's closer to home and we're focused on developing a platform that we can scale off of.
But at no point have we told ourselves that the US is kind of like the only, the sole focus.
Like you have to be able to like bolster the company to be able to operate internationally if you want to be able to scale beyond kind of like the resource base that the US has like available today.
And so more exploration is going to happen in the U.S.
We'll probably discover more resources and like that pool will grow over time of projects that we can build in the U.S.
But yes, we are absolutely going to expand overseas and underwater maybe.
We won't be as worried about our ability to secure the critical minerals that we want to secure because we will have kind of rebuilt the
and established an entity, ideally, that is able to go across borders, to your point, and build these projects cost-effectively, time-effectively, and responsibly, ultimately.
And the reason that we are so panicked about it right now is because we have fundamentally lost the ability to build large-scale infrastructure, and we have lost the ability to operate complex minerals plants.
That's what we have lost.
And we need to build that back.
You know, we want to build 10 projects in 10 years.
Those projects will be an increasing scale over time, but the work will not be done in 10 years.
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