Big Ideas Lab Podcast Transcripts
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Your exploration inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hear untold stories, meet boundary-pushing pioneers and get unparalleled access to groundbreaking science and technology.
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Rare Earth Elements
September 29, 2026
Matthew Powell (0:01)
They called it Silver from Clay, and Henri St. Clair de Ville had finally produced enough of it to display as shining bars laying beside France's crown jewels in the Paris Exposition of 1855 Around the same time, Napoleon III was showing off the medal as silverware to his most important dinner guests. It was worth…
The phone in your pocket, the laptop at your desk, even the speakers or in-ears you're listening to this podcast on. Inside is some level of aluminum.
Scott McCall (1:43)
If you go in your backyard and you dig up some soil or rocks, you'll probably have a few hundred parts per million of rare earths in there. But getting that concentrated to a level where you can actually economically extract it is a challenge.
Matthew Powell (1:55)
And extracting them is only the first problem. The real challenge is turning what's in the ground into something industry can actually use, all the way through the supply chain.
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