Re: Hydrogen? Seriously?
"The Americans are sitting on loads of minerals, including the lithium needed for batteries"
The best Lithium supplies may be in South America. There is just the little problem of there being no infrastructure in the places where it's the most abundant.
Rare Earth mining in the US is stymied by Thorium being classed as a serious radioactive with strict disposal requirements and no market. If work were being done on Thorium based power reactors, it would go from a nuisance to a marketable material and solve the issue. That paves the way to all of the other Rare Earths that are in the same matrix for a reasonable price. That's the path that China is taking. They can't use the Thorium now, but the government is stockpiling it so the mines don't have to pay to dispose of it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
