another link for you. It's a bit dated, but unfortunately that's not in our favor since this was before Obama and the EPA killed off the last remaining Rare Earth mine in the U.S., Molycorp's, furthering China's dominant position.

It's simply astounding that someone that deals with the financing in this industry is unaware of this concern. Only surpassed by the fact that you don't seem to even have a desire to learn, apparently solely because it doesn't fit your desired message.

"Heard of germanium? How about neodymium? Or terbium? Or rhenium? ....... these substances are increasingly important to green tech, clean tech and high tech—and the U.S. doesn’t have enough of them. ....... “But they’re central to such technologies as electric cars, wind turbines, solar cells, flat panel display screen and military technologies. They’re energy critical elements.”

"The report came out against the backdrop of rising fears in the U.S. over Chinese dominance in the rare earth market, where China is estimated to produce as much as 90 to 95% of the world’s rare earths. Unless the U.S. moves to expand production of the elements, husband its resources and look to innovate replacements or recycle existing supplies, there is a real risk that the clean energy economy could falter as it scales up—or the U.S. could find itself trading dependence on foreign oil for dependence on foreign elements. "

And BTW, before you go down that path, recycling Rare Earths thus far has proven to be entirely impractical and insufficient.