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FriedButter

Brigadier
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Desperate stuff by Trump. Galactic Supapowa now threatening China that it's going to produce its own cooking oil. Be very afraid!

It isn’t the only desperation. Trump appears to be threatening a trade embargo with China in general. I wonder how long MAGA political influence can survive if China response with an trade embargo of their own.

We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution.
 

uguduwa

Junior Member
Registered Member
Personally i think the moon and space branding around Starship is just a mirage, and i personally think will be mostly used as a point-to-point logistical hack to resupply allies and troops in Asia when a war between China-US happens in Asia. Just in time manufacturing combined with just in time logistics is probably the only way for the US to compete/keep up in Asia.

/remove tinfoil hat.
It‘s not a secret that it will be used for military resupply missions.
 

Maikeru

Major
Registered Member
Reuters reported on September 28, 2024, that according to US government data, the United States imported approximately 1 million tons of waste cooking oil (commonly known as "gutter oil") in the first half of this year, of which approximately 60% came from China.

China's gutter oil industry reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.

This is what annihilation looks like.
 

Equation

Lieutenant General
Reuters reported on September 28, 2024, that according to US government data, the United States imported approximately 1 million tons of waste cooking oil (commonly known as "gutter oil") in the first half of this year, of which approximately 60% came from China.

China's gutter oil industry reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.

This is what annihilation looks like.
Like the US soybeans export to China? China purchased of US soybeans to date is: ZERO. MAGA farmers are panicking.
 

FairAndUnbiased

Brigadier
Registered Member
How much you need is the key right? Preventing smuggling or even legal purchase of thousand ton of Magnets is possible. But not if its 2-3 tons for the entire year that ASML might need. Moreover, ASML is likely not even buying these magnets directly, ASML is an assembler of other components/motors thing like that. ASML has thousands of suppliers and these suppliers are supplying to thousands of other applications. So, its not possible to target just ASML and say, don't sell this motor to ASML.

Even if China did a 100% ban of rare-earth exports to Netherlands, they still won't be able to prevent ASML production because of how little they need per machine and so few machines they make per year. Its not like cars which are produced by the millions.
Here's the problem: for many precision magnetic applications you need custom shaped magnets. You can get them from turbines and EVs but they'll be of the wrong shape/size/orientation. Heating them over the Curie temperature removes the magnetization. Some of the magnetic field shapes are quite tricky and is done with specialized fields. Remember these have to be nm precise for wafer patterning, a poorly aligned field that causes a 1 um shift or 0.5 degree tilt is unacceptable.

China mostly supplies the finished rare earth magnets.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General

This is an example how Europeans think their shit don't stink and smells like roses. Basically you have Italians here who think whatever they say without even thinking even though it defies logic is as good as gold. The West wants everyone to think also that whatever of theirs is more expensive means it's better quality. Or how about when it's about food, if some dish that originated from their poor people it carries all the romanticism of their culture and has to be the best in the world. But if it was from poor people from any other part of the world, it has to be close to eating garbage. Don't Ferraris have a reputation of breaking down a lot but of course that says nothing about their quality.
 
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