The following is a guest post by Bill Willoughby. Bill is a mining engineer who blogs at Resource and Environment. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) tells us, in its 2010 Critical Materials Strategy [1], that we are on the cusp of a clean energy revolution. That revolution is visible from my window at night, in 96 blinking red lights, and growing, that mark the location of a wind farm on the horizon, soon to be capable of generating 180 MW. I have yet to see a Volt or Leaf on the road, but Priuses abound. DOE tells us that clean energy production by…
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