Liberty Star Uranium and Metals Corp (LBSR)

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Fiber-optics won't bring industrial power to western China...





...and that's the last pool of consolidated cheap labor on the planet. Multinationals already want to bring the farmers in from the fields to work in a largely unregulated bottom-wage conditions. I doubt the enterprising Chinese government will disappoint them, especially since said corporations will build their roads and much of their power grid expansion.

Then consider the uranium that will power the new grid. Look at the stimulus mandates to build new reactors and power the rest of the rural provinces. Think it won't happen? Assets like cheap labor, rail/port logistics, or huge mineral deposits can only fall so far before someone sees the value and makes a move. It's one of the few contexts wherein greed truly is good, i.e. do unto Hay Mountain before your neighbor gets there first.

BTW, you can't wind motors with fiber optics, nor armatures, voice coils, heating elements, wirewound resistors, solenoids, linear actuators, transformers, or copper IUD's. You can't wire a house with it, or a factory, or a hospital or university or an entire city springing up like the do in China every few days.

Copper is the ideal match of conductivity and tensile strength, better than steel, silver, aluminum, or any other comparable material. Give the geniuses another few decades and graphene compounds will likely rival copper at a more attractive mass ratio, but for now the multinational greedy will not get to exploit the willing Chinese and their resources without a big push for copper and Uranium.

Now go back to your copper-traced circuit keyboard and think up a clever response.

Go LBSR!