Hi -- Since many of us got involved in the wind turbine/magnet production pollution problem issue, wanted to let you know that a friend who runs a solar industry, Scott Sklar, told me that China makes those magnets without pollution controls. But that wind turbines in Europe and US and Japan follow specific standards that include pollution controls, and in fact, rare earth used in making those magnets is now being mined in California, but is required to follow strict pollution control standards. When I asked him if those pollution standards control the making of magnets and rare earth mining related to the magnet production" he said that they follow the environmental impact statements on mining and ISO9001 mfg certification which does not allow any wastes. That everything must either be recycled in the plant, out of the plant, or disposed in a certified procedure (less than 1 % is - usually radioactive ore).
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