NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Mining the waste dumps
Where there’s trash there’s treasure
16 May 2022 - 15:45
Dateline: May 15 2026
Everybody’s talking about the latest global economic crunch — a shortage of raw material resources. It’s not as if we’re actually running out of coal, oil or gas, and there’s plenty of lithium in the Salton Sea. But production capacities for nickel, aluminium, titanium and a bunch of rare-earth minerals are causing big headaches worldwide...
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