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SCANDIUM ~Bill Gates Says High-Voltage Power Lines Will Save America. He's Right.~ (Another use for Scandium!)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a42780369/bill-gates-transmission-power-lines/

Gates goes one to explain that if the U.S. wants to reach its net-zero carbon emissions goal in 2050, the country is going to need an upgraded energy grid that can handle the estimated 40 to 60 percent increase in electricity demand because of the proliferation of electric vehicles, electric stoves, and other electric-powered appliances and infrastructure. This means building more high-voltage power lines, especially where the wind blows (the midwest) and the sun shines (the southwest), and making them longer as well so they can reach dense population centers.

SCANDIUM on the move!

Aluminium-scandium allows cables used in electric power transmission to efficiently handle larger currents, especially during peak times. Ensuring efficient electrical conductivity Scandium addition is also shaking things up in the electric industry, including for the high-voltage cables used to power electric transport grids.

https://www.elementnorth21.com/high-voltage-conductors/
The ONLY NORTH AMERICAN producer of SCANDIUM is elementnorth21
SCANDIUM IS A Game Changer

Aluminium-scandium allows cables used in electric power transmission to efficiently handle larger currents, especially during peak times.

ALUMINIUM IN POWER-ENGINEERING
https://www.aluminiumleader.com/application/electrical_engineering/

Among base metals, aluminium only copper is better, but only by 33%, at the same time aluminium has an undeniable advantage – it is lighter. An aluminium wire have a 1.5 times larger cross section to pass the same current as a copper wire, but two times lighter. Weight is one of the most important parameters for high-voltage power lines that transmit power over long distances. Therefore, only aluminium wires are used in main overhead power lines.

NioCorp aims for 92% rare earth recoveries at demo plant in Quebec
https://www.mining.com/niocorp-aims-92-rare-earth-recoveries-at-demo-plant-in-quebec/

The company said the results at the L3 Process Development in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, support the technical feasibility of separating high-purity oxides of several key magnetic rare earths from ore extracted at the Elk Creek project, in southeastern Nebraska.
NioCorp aims to produce at Elk Creek metals including niobium, scandium and titanium, which are in high demand due to their wide-ranging uses in products such as mobile phones and electric vehicles.

Defying China’s dominance

Despite limited US efforts to find alternative sources of rare earths, the US remains heavily dependent on China and Chinese-owned companies for these critical materials.
NioCorp is one of several rare earth industry players that lobbied US lawmakers to pass legislation incentivizing the domestic manufacturing of permanent rare earth magnets.
The US government is hoping to find new deposits of minerals and metals by digitizing information from 100-year-old geological maps and by flying survey planes all over the country.
The Biden administration is also financing programs to recover valuable minerals and metals from waste piles of old mines.
The importance of having a domestic supply of critical metals became evident in 2010, after China blocked exports of rare earths to Japan during a dispute over a fishing trawler incident, sending prices soaring. Since then, tensions between Washington and Beijing have escalated, prompting fears about politically and economically motivated supply-chain disruptions.

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Chico