[ExI] it won't work, but i have a better idea

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Sent: Saturday, 11 October, 2025 12:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] it won't work, but i have a better idea

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> >…Yeah but it could take a decade to reach China's level of experience.

> I refuse to believe we cannot develop the chemistry technology to 
> extract these materials

That's not what John said.  He didn't say that we can't get there, just that we're not there yet.

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OK cool, no worries.  

There is big money to be made in finding alternatives until we can get that whole thing going.  Example: finding enough dysprosium for computer chips should be easy: it doesn't take much.  Designing an electric motor or generator with replaceable permanent magnets would allow us to use the non-RE motors until we get the RE extraction facility running, then swap out the magnets for the more-advanced RE magnets.

spike