Recent content by Les Confer

Daniel, To what extent are your daily news articles "AI written". Any more than the simple prompt words appearing on cell phone when texting?

Looks like ReElement will be doing the separation (via CIC, continuous ion chromatography). There is lots to read about ReElement if members search forum with that name. They have also done a podcast with REEx.

Excellent, persuasive essay! Thanks for sharing it. Signed up to get more of her substacks.

I opened the link provided and read the technical study itself. It made me recall the attached U. of Idaho 2016 Master's thesis by Kevin Lyon. Kevin actually tested his Matlab modeling with confirming SX extraction experiments (on Idaho National Laboratory's 32-stage bench scale mixer-settler...

If any members subscribe to "The Epoch Times", see their Dec. 8, 2025 edition for an interview and fairly non-technical article about Dr. James Tour and Flash Joule Heating entitled "This Chemist May Have Cracked America's Rare Earth Problem". Thanks @Deven for bringing this all together in...

Thanks for the videos, Deven. The one with Dr. Tour introducing and interviewing was especially helpful. His graphs using Gibb's Free Energy and Arhenius' Plots allowed me to better understand how the separations can be made and further purified. Took me back many years to my university days...

Deven, Thanks for all the information. It is obvious you are well researched and knowledgeable on these two companies. Does that come from deep dive into their websites or how? Was excited about FJ Heating and Metallium when I learned about it in mid-2025. But then became less so when I read...

Deven and Daniel, Maybe you know this already, but these two companies entered into a 12-month binding agreement on 9/13/25. You can read about this on their websites. See metalliuminc.com under their Announcements (dated 9/15/2025) and UCORE.com. Both are showing the same flowchart with a...

Just saw the updated processor rankings and "theoretical" REEx ETF: * Compared to earlier draft in August, "Technology Type" now a score instead of being more explicit. I did brief cross referencing to suggest that SX gets a 7, whereas using IX gets an 8. Could you add this Tech type scoring...

Appreciate the examples of US gov'ts non-free market programs for their farmers. As a boy in the 1960's, I was kept busy mowing my grandfather's 100 acres because it was in the "soil bank". The gov,t was paying him to not grow any more grains because their grain surplus/price support storage...