Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017
Apparently the speed at which we are consuming rare elements such as Gallium1, Indium, Hafnium, Terbium and even Zinc and Platinum2 we will run out in a decade. Which means we’ll also not be able to produce new LCD displays.3
“Solutions will be needed, if we want to go on having things like television screens and solar panels and computer chips. Synthesizing the necessary elements, or finding workable substitutes for them, is one obvious idea. Recycling these vanishing elements from discarded equipment is another.”1
Read the following for more information
- Reflections: The Death of Gallium
- Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
- RIP LCD Displays. Invented: 1971 – Extinct: 2017
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