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Humanity Is Desperate for Rare Earth Elements. This Plant Is Growing Them Right Under Our Feet. (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Rare Earth elements are plentiful, it's the refining of them which is uncommon.

[–] king_link1@feddit.dk 1 points 3 months ago

I really don’t think this phytomining will take over, not unless they genetically engineer the plants to have an extreme reach and really boost the process