Victor Vescovo
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Nov
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I think it's just, it's a very expensive way to get metal.
And there are only a couple of them that you need.
And by the way, there are no rare earth metals in seafloor nodules.
There are only trace amounts.
And that's another dirty, people say that there are, because I think it helps support the national security angle, but look at any academic paper.
There are no economic quantities of rare earth metals in seafloor nodules.
There just aren't.
I think Australia is the real key.
We also have a deep military partnership now with Australia.
I can't think of a better partnership than we supply them nuclear submarines and they supply us nickel, cobalt, and all these other raw ores that we would then process in the U.S.
Again, if we're willing to make the massive economic and environmental investments
sacrifices to process metal in the U.S.
They could, but they're also a Western liberal democracy.
But they are in the far Western desert, so it might be simpler for them to do it.
It's possible.
That gets into geopolitical negotiations.
But
basically replicating China's strategy, but for Australia, but also other countries.
For manganese, South Africa, for nickel, you could also go to New Caledonia, all these other countries.
There's a method to do it, but it's disconnected to needing to go to the seafloor.
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