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Nov. 24, 2025 - Epoch Times
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How One Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem | Dr. James Tour
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As you know, most wars are fought over resources, water, oil, minerals.
People fight over this and they kill each other over this.
So when I was presenting this to a group of generals from NATO and the head guy there, he stood up, he says, this is going to prevent wars.
He says, I don't have to fight for this now.
If you can do this, if you can take our waste and be producing this for us, I don't have to fight wars over this.
And we can set up these factories.
So the first factory is like $40 million, but it's cheaper the next factory we build because we've worked out all the technology.
And so if we can put these together and the small localized factories that are not generating a bunch of waste, China has absolutely contaminated some of their cities.
I mean, it's just toxic to live there because of the waste that normally comes from some of these processes.
Now, you don't have to run them that way.
You can run a hydrometallurgical process and be very quite clean, but you have to be able to trap all these secondary wastes.
These are clean, easy to set up, and that's why we're building these companies.
The first one is just outside of Houston in Texas.
The next one, we have a site, pre-permitted site in Massachusetts, another one in Virginia, because these are very clean.
And we've been asked by the federal government to set up more of these entities around the country.
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