Epoch Times - How One Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem | Dr. James Tour
Aired: 2025-11-24
Duration: 01:35


=== Preventing Wars with Waste (01:35) ===

[00:00:00]  As you know, most wars are fought over resources, water, oil, minerals.
[00:00:07]  People fight over this and they kill each other over this.
[00:00:11]  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.
[00:00:21]  He says, I don't have to fight for this now.
[00:00:23]  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.
[00:00:30]  And we can set up these factories.
[00:00:32]  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.
[00:00:40]  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.
[00:00:52]  I mean, it's just toxic to live there because of the waste that normally comes from some of these processes.
[00:01:00]  Now, you don't have to run them that way.
[00:01:02]  You can run a hydrometallurgical process and be very quite clean, but you have to be able to trap all these secondary wastes.
[00:01:09]  These are clean, easy to set up, and that's why we're building these companies.
[00:01:15]  The first one is just outside of Houston in Texas.
[00:01:19]  The next one, we have a site, pre-permitted site in Massachusetts, another one in Virginia, because these are very clean.
[00:01:29]  And we've been asked by the federal government to set up more of these entities around the country.