But – the perennial question now – does the process require reasonably priced power to be economic?
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A George Alexopoulos toon.
due to an electoral redistribution am no longer in Watson the seat held by gaza quisling, Tony Burqa. We are…
Those shiny shoes and well pressed shirt won’t last too long!I sometimes wonder if the school yard game British Bulldog…
Well done.
The Tele is doing some great work.
Yep, which is why I subscribe. The Tele breaks news.
Trump’s DOE investigating five universities –including Columbia – over alleged antisemitic harassment as Biden’s ‘toothless’ efforts ripped
NY AG Letitia James tells hospitals to continue sex-change procedures for minors despite Trump’s executive order
The woman is so stupid that she thinks that somehow it is discrimination against gender benders because they won’t get treatment that normal people get. Um no you stupid botch. Normal people don’t need treatments to change their sex.
She is not that stupid – she is well aware that many of her voters are.
Liz Storer now agrees with Usman Khawaja. She keeps digging and digging until she reaches Mecca. Just give her a burqa now, why wait.
Yep, Liz Storer is done, no longer belongs on Sky after dark or even in the daytime. She is no longer worthy of polishing even Laura Jayes’ shoes. Liz is now a bigger anti-Semite than Antoinette Lattouf.
Received a letter from the AEC today happily informing me that due to an electoral redistribution am no longer in Watson the seat held by Gaza quisling, Tony Burqa.
We are now in Grayndler under the rat-faced Albo-weasel. Another victory for the democratic process!
Congratulations you no longer have AIDS.
It’s now arse cancer.
Thanks, Moley. I thought I was trying to stay positive.
I see CIA, sorry USAID, was sending 63M USD to Al Qaeda, sorry HTS, in Idlib for humanitarian purposes.
They now kill infidels humanely?
The quest for the rare earths. Can the RE magnets in windmills be processed back into their constituent products?
I’ve asked before, but no one seems to know.
If so, China has just shot itself in the foot by exporting it to us to use in our factories.
I’m sure if pulverise and reconstitute them in a different, required shape by adding binding agents, it would be possible.
Leave it to BoN to confirm, so far there was no need due to cost effectiveness.
Yes.
To date there has been limited commercial interest in REE recycling, but with the growing availability of large-scale scrap and increasing demand for EVs and windmills it looks like an industry is starting to form.
However this only recycles samarium and neodymium (the REEs chiefly used in permanent magnets) back into the supply chain – so not a replacement for Chinese supply of the other REEs used in electronics and the high tech sectors.
When you look around at the sheer amount of windmills that are going to be needing reclamation, that seems like an interesting field for at least those two elements.
There’s a mob on the ASX called MTM Critical Metals that have some thing called Flash Joule Heating Technology that claim to be able to take ewaste, coal fly ash from coal power stations, bauxite residue from alumina refineries and pull critical metals from them.
Thanks, Caveman. That’s an interesting technology.
https://www.mtmcriticalmetals.com.au/
Might even be worth a little punt on the market.
But – the perennial question now – does the process require reasonably priced power to be economic?
Smoke and mirrors?
I actually was suggesting this above, in relation to Panama at the very least.
Miracles happen. We’re on the same page. Any idea why Trump is focusing on these issues when the election campaign was about cost of living and housing?
Because it’s not JUST about cost of living and housing. The biggest issue facing America after the Biden years in the Crisis of Government.
People are desperate to see that an adult is in charge and that this will lead to the cost of living and housing issues being dealt with.
I have never heard of this jumped-up parasite on the taxpayers’ teat, Barbara Pocock, before today.
Yet another over opinionated Green who thinks Australians care what she says.
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Why I bashed the evil Skaf gang rape ringleader in a jail yard showdown. It cost me more time behind bars, but I don’t regret itBy JONICA BRAY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
With, possibly one exception , there’s nothing rare about rare earths. The stuff is plentiful. It’s the refining which is problematic because the process is environmentally poisonous. There’s nothing magical about the refining process: it’s just that no one wants to do it except China. 🙂
Population nirvana
There is nothing they can do about it. It isn’t just the fertility rate, the youth are gone from “lying flat” to “let it rot”, a form of passive protest against the 996 lifestyle. South Korea is at .78 and are so desperate to raise it that youth are giving money to socialize. Japan was the canary in the goldmine on this one. The three countries have one thing in common: extreme competition in schooling and work. That may not be relevant. I read a few studies on this. The strongest argument is counter-intuitive, the more urbanized(ie population density), the lower the fertility rate. There isn’t any one cause for this problem.
the more urbanized(ie population density), the lower the fertility rate. There isn’t any one cause for this problem.
Humans are like pandas, they dont breed well in captivity
The problem is feminism and hypergamy.
Under a true free market, women would earn way less than half of what men do. All the well paid jobs that women routinely do (healthcare, government, teaching, HR) only exist in their number because of taxpayer support and ridiculous IR laws.
If the average woman earnt her true market value (probably around one third the average man) then every woman would be vastly more attracted to these average men.
Combine that with fixing up our anti-male divorce laws, banning women from any education after Year 10 and you would see a massive baby boom.
Just to be sure I would make pre-marital sex a felony too.
Take all CCP statistics with a kilo of salt.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Putting her in a BMW SUV is a nice touch. They do seem to attract entitled arrogant drivers with no respect for others.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Mark Knight #4.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Didn’t work unfortunately. Gives an error message.
Works fine for me, JR. Problem is at your end
Thanks Tom and I will investigate.
Stop whingeing Wodney.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, a polite reply is not whingeing. Back on the Hamster Wheel for you.
Rotters, you have to copy the link address for Garrison into the browser – this is the only way it will display for me. You’ll also need to do the same for Tina Norton’s ‘toons (Garrison’s woife).
Thanks Tom.
The bleating from the climate zealots continues. Even Michael (Hockey Stick) Mann has joined in the chorus. For a scientist he uses a lot of juvenile hyperbole. In the Guardian no less:
“We should plan for the worst,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. “The keys to the car have been given to the polluters and fossil fuel plutocrats and they intend to drive it off the climate cliff.” Sure Michael.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/new-us-attorney-district-columbia-busts-unique-chinese/
One day, China will need friends, but no one will trust her because of her history with other nations.
Putting together REE and Chinese tariff? impositions, and the Ukraine/Russia conflict:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-demands-ukraine-give-rare-earth-minerals-u/
I was going to stop putting up stuff but this one caught my eye and it’s too good to let pass.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/here-we-go-georgia-republican-reintroducing-bill-make/
From the comments:
Dover, I keep getting this error message. Is anyone else getting it?
It started a couple of days ago. I don’t see any reason for it and I don’t remember it coming up on any other sites except when it was warranted.
Circumstances:
I keep two NewCat pages open. One to watch, the other is a duplicate that is open at the top for comments. I read the first, then make comment on the second and then refresh for it to enter it at the end of the first page.
Cumbersome but saves me a lot of scrolling.
Interestingly enough, it doesn’t happen with reply comments, just original ones.
Interesting – the error message doesn’t appear if I post in the original page.
I’ve had that message too when having two separate windows open and a comment half composed on one. Dover’s site seems to only like one of you at a time. Fair enough.
Clean sweep of the Top Right Comments box – all 5 are mine.
Are the rest of you asleep?
Nope. Been up since 4am..smashed my wrist last Sat. Can’t sleep much and typing is pain. It’s a cool morning down south so guess people are having a sleep in after the warm weather.
How did you manage that, mem?
Are you getting enough pain relief?
I’m still a little rocky in one foot after burst aneurism in brain and stupidly went to toss an empty crisp packet at “the cricket watcher” who had neglected everything else for hours, and fell heavily backwards onto kitchen tiles. There’s probably a moral in this but it has passed me by.
Oh mem,
blessings for a speedy recovery.
I can empathise.
I hope the cricket watcher helped you onto your feet immediately, and not during a commercial break.
Nasty, mem.
My sister – nearly 80, has tiles all through the lower floor of her house. Tiles are just so unforgiving. They really need to sell that monstrosity and get a single story fully cushioned and carpeted house.
Regular Paracetamol, mem. Don’t wait until you get pain because then you’re fighting an uphill battle.
Tom and I were posting just after 4.00 am. Tom at 4.10 am and Me at 4.20 am.
From the Epoch Times: Chinese Links to Alleged Undersea Cable Sabotage in Europe, Asiahttps://www.theepochtimes.com/article/chinese-links-to-alleged-undersea-cable-sabotage-in-europe-asia-5802356
Oops! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/victoria-berrybank-wind-turbine-collapse/104895810
I’m no engineer but I would reckon that a few hot days might have slightly expanded the structure, then followed by a strong breeze would do the trick if there was cribbing on the joins.
The BBC continues to blame everything on climate change, the fires in LA, the flooding in Australia and elsewhere, and I half expected them to do the same for the school shooting, a rare event in Sweden. Perhaps they just need more time to come up with that link.
Please.
There are several Sporty Beemer drivers here, most of whom don’t fit that description.
How deep is the rot?
Jo Nova lifts the lid on USAID, which is being shut down right away.
NPR and PBS next, while Kari Lake will take charge of VOA.
BB, a link to the Jo Nova site about the USAID and the way it was designed to be a tool of the Deep State..
I hoped that everyone had Jo on their quick links by now.
I did, but some do not – and often other posters don’t include them.
Just think of it as my caring, sharing, good deed for the day.
I’m storing upthumbs for when I kark it, because God knows I’ll need them.
Carrying water for Labor, Their ABC helpfully explains how wonderful everything will be in the workers’ paradise, the sunlit uplands of free* full-time kindergarten.
I can’t be buggered doing the googling, but I’d love to see the correlation between spending early childhood being handled by strangers and incidences of ADD, ADHD, OCD, ODD, and LGBTQIAP.
That’s going to put an entire industry – the child minding – on the skids.
Odd how Sky Oz let go of Erin Molan but chose to keep Foghorn Fool Liz Storer.
The WSJ says much the same things about Trump’s tariff campaign as that never-Trumper on Sky yesterday. American Thinker takes the WSJ and shreds it.
The WSJ gets more pathetic every day as they try to pooh-pooh Trump’s trade war – American Thinker
Legacy meja. Part of the problem
…and a nice kitty kat video to get youse all off to a good start for the day…
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1567865343898305
A bit of a slow news day today by the looks of things. Not so slow in these parts – youngest grandchild starts school today and photos have been flying around the ether. Those shiny shoes and well pressed shirt won’t last too long!
Another milestone passed for the family, and all my lovely babies have been left behind in the pages of photo albums. I’ll turn around once or twice and they’ll be sending me their graduation photos.
*dusts off hands*
So far all that hard work has paid off in spades.
Well done.
I sometimes wonder if the school yard game British Bulldog wasn’t invented by Big School Uniform Inc to pump up sales.
Titus, beware – this will present you with an infuriating dilemma when casting your lower house vote in the feral erection, as I discovered in 2010.
If the final runoff count is between albansleazy and the greenfilth candidate (as it was in 2010) you will end up having voted for one of them if you cast a legitimate vote. Funnily enough, the final runoff last election was between albansleazy and the gliberal candidate – but good luck predicting who’ll be in the final runoff this time.
I’d suggest voting informal, regardless, unless you’re happy to have your vote potentially go to one of those two forkwits.
Such is the idiocy of compulsory preferential voting.
A George Alexopoulos toon.