Good physics with aluminum

 

I never see good physics with these 'science porn' sites.  Nearly everything suffers from scaling.  But this one seems good.  Rare earth metals are everywhere.  You keep reading about new sites, and how great they are, but this is useless.

The nasty buggers are nearly impossible to process and get into a useful form.  That's because their very usefulness results from a very aggressive charge structure.  Try putting that in your pocket!

For a reaction, nobody cares about the stuff inside, it's all the surface.  They now claim to have a structure of aluminum that is as sizzly as the sizzliest rare metal.  If I were trymp, I would treat this discovery like the mrna discovery for the covid vaccine.  Get it out there, and compensate later.  Lots of labs sit on this stuff for rights, etc.

If it is as reactive as they say, then it scales well.  Mass production could solve all these rare earth problems without killing all the miners and processors.  I am excited.

ps note the irony, as he hates the covid vaccine.