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Bloomberg: Rare earth metals are key to global efforts to switch to cleaner energy -- from batteries in hybrid cars to magnets in wind turbines. Mining and processing the metals causes environmental damage that China, the biggest producer, is no longer willing to bear.
China's rare earth industry each year produces more than five times the amount of waste gas, including deadly fluorine and sulfur dioxide, than the total flared annually by all miners and oil refiners in the U.S. Alongside that 13 billion......
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Rare earths leave toxic trail to Toyota Prius, Vestas turbine
Posted by Bloomberg: Stuart Biggs on January 6th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation