The cool good news that innovative mixtures of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon & nitrogen + oxides & ions of these can produce nano-materials that have unmatched electrical & thermal performance, so our technology can mirror life with applied life science interdisciplinary blending with information technology, mining & materials processing.
There is an eco-friendly way to conduct all human activity at even higher levels of functionality so we can build moon colonies & develop mars & go interstellar with human development.
I am talking about using truly eco-friendly technology to expand human life to the edges of existence, in other dimensional spaces, in poly-verses, in the meta-verse, across the universe, to infinity & beyond!
Today many emerging technologies make use of Technologically Critical Elements, while the mining of these rare & critical elements poses significant environmental & public health problems because of acid mine drainage water pollutions toxic to streams, lakes, rivers & commercially important fish & aquatic lifeforms. Dust, fume & air pollution emission from TCE production are also toxic to human health & bad for ecosystems.
I am talking about making magnets, transistors, turbine exhaust blades, aerospace materials, electrical wiring, networking & telecommunications switching & equipment, power production equipment & all advanced technology with novel materials made of nano-structured mixtures of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen & oxygen + oxides & ions of them, so that information technology can be wet, flexible & living just like the human brain, flexibly adapting with conscious intelligence to changing conditions in Earth's climate & weather.
Oxides & ions of most elements have exceptional performance, enabling the production of room temperature superconductors & other amazing products that have no historical analog. We can use the best of life science in information technology to make eco-friendly devices & machines without rare earth metals or other toxic critical metal elements or their oxides. Novel nano-materials cheaply made of earth abundant materials, like sodium ion batteries supplanting lithium ion battery technology that's widely diffused worldwide today!
Valence electron shell atomic bond sharing dipoles & band gap & conductance band & quantum properties & quantum molecular mechanics / reaction control mechanisms in chemistry, widely utilized by lifeforms on Earth in biochemistry
We can sprinkle in tiny amounts of metal ion ligand to make enzymes to replace rare metal catalyst, lower temperatures processing of petroleum using novel bioscience enzyme catalyst technology.
Even the TCE elements can be used in tiny quantities to sprinkle in magical properties to substances largely made of cheaper eco friendly earth abundant elements like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen & nitrogen + oxides & ions, and compounds and substances mostly made of these elements, their oxides or ions.
Consider the dominate elements in the human body
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon
Sodium
Chlorine
Calcium
Now think of the infinite number of different ways to make electrically & thermally conducting substance out of molecular combinations of these, their ions & oxides.
I am talking about diamond the crystal of carbon with unmatched thermal conductivity
I am talking about oxides sintered into advanced ceramics made of sodium & calcium & oxygen
I am talking about super materials made with life science information about bones & flesh & brain cells
Mirroring life in our technology the key to making eco-friendly higher performance vehicles, spacecraft & other advanced technologies.
Consider existing solutions using rare & critical metals; From Wikipedia we can learn the following:
List of technology-critical elements[edit]
The set of elements usually considered as TCEs vary depending on the source, but they usually include:
Seventeen rare-earth elements
Six platinum-group elements
Twelve assorted elements
Applications of technology-critical elements[edit]
TCEs have a variety of engineering applications in fields such as energy storage, electronics, telecommunication, and transportation.[14] These elements are utilized in cellular phones, batteries, solar panel(s), electric motor(s), and fiber-optic cables. Emerging technologies also incorporate TCEs. Most notably, TCEs are used in the data networking of smart devices tied to the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation.[14]
Environmental considerations
The extraction and processing of TCEs may cause adverse environmental impacts. The reliance on TCEs and critical metals like cobalt can run the risk of the “green curse,” or using certain metals in green technologies whose mining may be damaging to the environment.[15]
The clearing of soil and deforestation that is involved with mining can impact the surrounding biodiversity through land degradation and habitat loss. Acid mine drainagecan kill surrounding aquatic life and harm ecosystems. Mining activities and leaching of TCEs can pose significant hazards to human health. Wastewater produced by the processing of TCEs can contaminate groundwater and streams. Toxic dust containing concentrations of metals and other chemicals can be released into the air and surrounding bodies of water.
The mining of TCEs can also exacerbate climate change. Considerable amounts of greenhouse gases can be emitted from burning fossil fuels and processing ore. Deforestation caused by mining results in the release of stored carbon from the ground to the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2)
Expand your understand of why common TCE metals have excellence properties exploited by common technologies today.
Its their valence electron shell fill & ability to move electrons, like silicon as a semiconductor or copper as an excellence electrical conductor
The band gap between the valence shell & the conductance controls chemical reactions, the photoelectical properties, atomic bonding, materials properties, heat & electrical conductivity, mechanical performance & incredibly oxides & ions of these elements are what make superconductors & amazing exhaust turbine blades possible. Consider the iridium crucibles used in the electronics industry to grow germanium crystals used in epitaxy production of LED's for example. A nano-carbon diamond quantum dot LED has better electrical performance, can emit different colors or wavelengths of light, lasts longer & made of earth abundant eco friendly carbon. Diamonds are just the crystal of carbon, and have exceptional thermal conductivity to make best in class heatsinks of solid synthetic diamond sintered or mixtures of diamond & graphene, special cool carbon molecules.
Seriously, all the rare metals can be replaced with novel nano materials with better performance, made of cheaper eco-friendly oxygen & nitrogen from air, hydrogen & oxygen from water & sodium & chlorine from sea water.
Eco-friendly metal mining also possible now using polymer bead capture technology. So all polluting mining activity can be upgraded with eco-safe cheaper processing methods that do not cause water or air pollution emissions or radical reduce pollution emissions.
Novel materials science & new chemical substances & molecules made of earth abundant elements can be used to replace all rare earth metals in advance magnets, advanced conductors of heat & electricity, in materials processing, in mining, its going to be novel carbon, novel oxides, novel ions, combinations of life science molecules & enzymes to replace metal catalysts, enabling more energy efficient lower heat processing of all materials in manufacturing at lower temperatures. We can make better higher performance products for more people without using toxic materials.
There are emerging materials that have best in class performance, without any rare or toxic metals. Think of the kinds of innovation we will make with cheap mass produce graphene. Amazing new ceramics made of earth abundant minerals. I am talking about sodium ion batteries replacing lithium ion batteries, enabling cheaper better EV's that charge faster with longer range & longer battery life, cheaper batteries that are easy to recycle repeatedly into new rechargeable sodium ion batteries.
I am talking about aluminum air batteries & other cool innovations, actually green clean technologies, greatly enhanced worldwide recycling & more clean renewable & nuclear energy & energy storage to make life better for everyone while also radically reducing air & water pollution. Improved technology enables human actives to do way more positive change with much less negative impact on ecosystems. Our better technology will improve public health by radically reducing pollution emissions. Consider polymer beat capture of coal power emissions in an upgraded Swedish bagging system for example. Consider ion capturing all the toxic metals from coal before it's combusted so that coal power emissions are mostly just CO2 & H20 that's captured & reused.
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