{"id":439477,"date":"2010-03-17T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:22:41","slug":"scientist-implores-us-to-%e2%80%9cmaster%e2%80%9d-rare-earth-metals-for-future-transportation-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439477","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Implores US to \u201cMaster\u201d Rare Earth Metals For Future Transportation Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6046 aligncenter\" title=\"Rare-Earth_Magnet\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/Rare-Earth_Magnet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2009\/09\/10\/the-world-has-enough-lithium-for-electric-cars-its-the-other-bits-were-short-on\/\" >Rare earth metals<\/a> \u2014 so called because they are found in such low concentration on the Earth and are, therefore, exceedingly difficult to profitably mine \u2014 are required in everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2009\/09\/10\/the-world-has-enough-lithium-for-electric-cars-its-the-other-bits-were-short-on\/\" >advanced electric car batteries<\/a> and motors to <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/30\/climate-friendly-refrigerator-magnets\/\" >new refrigerator technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the US running headlong into a future where we depend on other countries for a stable supply of this critical resource?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/17\/scientist-implores-us-to-master-rare-earth-metals-for-future-transportation-security\/#more-6042\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=M7nhrR8KisQ:9kuH5w9uK74:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/M7nhrR8KisQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare earth metals \u2014 so called because they are found in such low concentration on the Earth and are, therefore, exceedingly difficult to profitably mine \u2014 are required in everything from advanced electric car batteries and motors to new refrigerator technology. Is the US running headlong into a future where we depend on other countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}