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Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’::“This result represents a total change in how we think about this material."

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[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, it also seems much more easily mined so hopefully less environmentally destructive than the crazy stuff we for rare earth mineral mining.

Edit: also, supply matters. If we can make much more of the necessary materials, price comes down, adoption increases etc.