[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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> If anything super important is being held up, we can mine the permanent magnets in wind turbines.

>...I could not say.  I don't have a bill of materials for either an F35 or a windmill.  However, magnets are not the only use of REs in high-tech defense hardware.  The engineers should never have been permitted to design in materials that did not have a secure source... Keith

The wind turbines become the secure source.  Once one flies across the USA and realizes how damn many of those things have been planted over the years, you realize there is no real shortage of material, regardless of what China does.  There are pleeeeeenty of idle turbines, plenty.  Most of them are not generating enough power to bother keeping them.  Peak power happened during the most active turbine building phase.

spike