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A new way to think about the world Rare Earths Aren’t Rare For Everyone ● By Jacob Lorinc Energy independence was for decades a fantasy in the US, until the advent of a new kind of oil production technology in the early aughts changed the rules of the game. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling, the US overtook petroleum heavyweights such as Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top oil producer, no longer at the mercy of mercurial trading partners. Today, President Donald Trump’s White House is chasing a similar dream— this time with rare earth elements, the hard-to-pronounce metals that underpin much of modern technology. …
摘自《彭博商业周刊》(Bloomberg Businessweek)2026年1月刊,Jacob Lorinc。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。