For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they’re worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.

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    6 days ago

    Rare isn’t a binary quality, true. But the name isn’t meaningless either. They’re rare enough that superpowers compete over mining sites.

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      5 days ago

      To be pedantic, rich deposits of them are reasonably rare. But that’s mostly due to capitalism making it unviable to process lower concentration deposits. The elements are otherwise pretty common.