Dysprosium Supply Decreasing and Demand Increasing Now Mackowski 12

(Steve Mackowski, Technical Director for Hastings Rare Metal LTD, "GUEST POST: How looming dysprosium shortages could threaten the clean-tech dream," 4/27/12 pg online @ blog.metal-pages.com/2012/04/27/guest-post-how-looming-dysprosiumshortages-could-threaten-the-clean-tech-dreamgh-arjun) The Western world is moving increasing transport needs.The dysprosium production race is on!

Alaska key to Dysprosium Epler 10

(Patti Epler, Alaska Dispatch, 2010, "Rare earth elements: Alaskas resource future?," pg online @ www.alaskadispatch.com/article/rare-earth-elements-alaska-sresource-future?page=fullgh-arjun) Ketchikan's dysprosium mother lode Major deposits of REEs are known to be in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and California, near the Nevada border, where a company called Molycorp just revitalized an old mine with a $531 million investment. But as often happens when it .. warrants state assistance in the form of incentives, such as providing land for processing facilities.

The Bering Strait Project jumpstarts Alaskan mineral development Dr. Cooper and Freeman 2k7
(Richard Freeman and Dr. Hal Cooper, an engineer and infrastructure specialist, Infrastructure Corridors Will Transform Economy, pg online @ __http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n37-20070921/2631_737.pdf__ ghs-ef) Global Development The Alaska-Canada railroad corridor, contemporaneous with the construction of a rail corridor from the Baikal Amur Mainline to Uelen, Russia both leading vectors of the Bering Strait projectwould bring about a profound and enduring change in the world economy. .war-avoidance footing. The forceful implementation of Lyndon LaRouches New Bretton Woods monetary system, as the present financial system blows to pieces, creates the unique historical moment to bring the Bering Strait project into existence.

Chinese rare earth monopoly causes world war three Anthony 11

(Sebastian Anthony, Lead editor at Ziff Davis, Inc. Owner at SA Holdings Past Columnist at Tecca Editor at Aol (Weblogs, Inc) Education University of Essex Extreme Tech, "Rare earth crisis: Innovate, or be crushed by China," 2011 pg online @ www.extremetech.com/extreme/111029-rare-earth-crisis-innovate-or-be-crushedby-china/2gh-arjun) The doomsday event that everyone is praying will never come to pass,.. III. The alternate, ecological point of view, is that were simply living beyond the planets means. Either way, strategic and logistic planning to make the most of scarce metals and minerals is now one of the most important tasks that face governments and corporations. Even if large rare earth deposits are found soon, or we start

recycling our gadgets in a big way, the only real solution is to somehow lessen our reliance on a finite resource. Just like oil and energy, this will probably require drastic technological leaps. Instead of reducing the amount of tantalum used in capacitors, or indium in LCD displays, we will probably have to discover completely different ways of storing energy or displaying images. My moneys on graphene.

Dysprosium key to Clean Tech and Wind Hoenderdaal 2011

(Alexander Willem Hoenderdaal, Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovation Research, Ultrecht University, Netherlands, "Can a dysprosium shortage threaten the green economy?," 2011 pg online @ nws.chem.uu.nl/publica/Publicaties %202011/NWS-S-2011-18.pdfgh-arjun) Possible oil scarcities and related increases in oil prices, .. hybrid and electric vehicles until 2050.

Clean Tech Solves Extinction Leeb, 2004

president of Leeb Capital Management, (Stephen and Donna, The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Oil Crisis, pg 205) Those words resonated with us. And as we thought about them, it seemed.of weapons-grade plutonium.

Current Energy Grid is susceptible Wind energy is key to US energy security Dr. Sovacool, & Cooper, 7 *Senior Research Fellow for the Network for New
Energy Choices in New York and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, VA and Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices (Benjamin K. Sovacool, also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Christopher Cooper, Sustainable Development Law & Policy, State Efforts to Promote Renewable Energy: Tripping the Horse with the Cart? Fall 2007, 8 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 5, Lexis-Nexis Academic) IMPROVING ENERGY SECURITY Second, security of the nation's electric infrastructure by forcing more technologies into the portfolio of all American utilities.

And, the plan is key to global renewables - these transmission lines would allow renewable energy to be exported world-wide and independently stabilize the grid Michler 2k11
(Andrew, Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail and Tunnel to Bridge the Bering Strait!, pg online @http://inhabitat.com/russia-green-lights-65-billionsiberia-alaska-rail-and-tunnel-to-bridge-the-bering-strait/ ghs-ef) In what could certainly be one of the boldest infrastructure developments ever announced, the Russian Government has given the go-ahead to build a transcontinental railway linking Siberia with North America. The massive undertaking ..economic growth.

And, even a Small grid failure brings down the entire system impact is chemical plant explosions which are worse than atomic bombs Latynina 2003
Yulia Latynina, journalist for Novaya Gazeta[World Press Review (VOL. 50, No. 11) www.worldpress.org/Americas/1579.cfm ] The scariest thing civilization could be as lethal as the weapons themselves. Last week, a significant and major addition was made to the lesson of Sept. 11: The actions of terrorists cant always be distinguished from the actions of a drunken dispatcher or random lightning.

And, mass nuclear waste release has the environmental impact of a nuclear war Ayala 3
(Leah Ayala, Nuclear Power Companies the Department of Energy: A Legal Remedy Magnifying Nuclear Ends, Nevada Law Journal, Winter 2002, LexisNexis) A very small amount ..Management Committee).