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The speaker considers it valuable to reduce reliance on rare earths and difficult-to-source transition metals such as cobalt, including in batteries.

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“especially if you can lower the dependence on rare earth or like transition metals that are hard to source like cobalt, reducing cobalt in batteries.”

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