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> Is it just uneconomic to extract it in other countries?

Yes mostly. The West outsourced this market due to heavy environmental and financial costs of extracting it. It’s sort of the same story as for a lot of the rare earth elements.

Rio Tinto is already on it in Quebec. The pilot plant is planned to ramp up production in 2027.

https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2026/rio-tinto-adv...

> This is why I laugh every time somebody seriously suggests there's going to be a war with China because the West would collapse without Chinese exports. It's just not going to happen.

> The problem with outsourcing all your manufacturing

Not having a war is a good thing, not a problem.

> and destroy any organized labor

Hilariously not any organized labor, just the local group. The largest organized labor group in the history of the world is alive and well, and is headquartered in Beijing.

This was basically just a case of kicking the can down the road really hard. The can is still there, waiting for you, and you are now completely dependent on it (oh and it has nuclear weapons).

> This is why I laugh every time somebody seriously suggests there's going to be a war with China because the West would collapse without Chinese exports. It's just not going to happen.

Sounds like all the more reason for china to start a war.

Just having one side dependent isn't going to stop war.

Would it? India has some relations with Russia….

> This is why I laugh every time somebody seriously suggests there's going to be a war with China because the West would collapse without Chinese exports. It's just not going to happen.

This is almost the exact same argument that was used to justify economic cooperation with Russia, they’d never start a war in Europe because their economy would collapse!

Ooos.

Does that mean the spectrum will have 3(or more) distinct spike at some wavelength , like old CFL ?

Looking bad isn't necessarily a deal-breaker for many applications, not even for decorative ones. Just look at the piercing bluish white LED Christmas lights that many people have put up, rather than the somewhat more expensive "warm" colored ones.

Not sure why this is downvoted. It's simple color theory, and the whole reason the CRI measure exists.

I remember attending a "pitch night," at a local incubator, about nine or ten years ago, when crypto was the new hotness.

One of the pitches was for a fairly good nonprofit service. I thought it was a good idea. Sort of a "help people that help people" thing. I can dig that.

At the very end of the pitch, the last thing the young lady said, was "And we're looking at implementing blockchain technology in our service."

I don't remember exactly what the service was, but it clearly had no applications for distributed-key tech.

I think it probably cost her the backing. No one was fooled. I think someone told her that she had to mention blockchain, somewhere.

Might want to consider not doing that.

See also the other comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328023 V/F doesn't really exist in Korean and B equivalent in latin character/ English sound gets used instead.

And many Korean legitimate news sites use AI to translate their articles to English (and other languages).

Never heard of Ajupress, but they seem legitimate based on short research. More than this semi conductor today site I'd say. The news site being Korean, would think they're way more likely to be the original source, which then got picked up by the semi conductor site.

This is their original article, in Korean, if you prefer original sources, in their respective language: https://www.ajunews.com/view/20261028171303299

Yeah, pronounced in korean it definitely is more similar to Biosys than Viosys. But since they have written it as Viosys in all english documentation and websites it is very suspect that the article writer would misspell it like that. So probably AI translating a korean source or something, but AI also does these mistakes much less often these days.