Washington is funding a range of homegrown separation technologies rather than copying Chinese methods. The bet is that innovation closes the gap faster than imitation. The United States does not know how to refine rare earths at scale. China does. That gap is not a matter of scientific ignorance. It is a matter of manufacturing…
Rare Earths
How US Rare Earth Refiners Plan to Beat China’s Know-How
Washington's answer is not to replicate the Chinese process. It is to fund a wide field of alternative separation technologies and back enough of them simultaneously…
