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Another factor challenging offshore is the marine environment’s ability to cause early failures of electro-mechanical devices. Salt air & water loves to eat metal!

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I believe the IEA figure 3 chart depicts the relative proportion of processing carried out in a given country. Chile produces far more copper than China (about 2.5 times as much in 2022), yet a large amount of that copper is made into products in China. Ele

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