To design intelligent solutions, we must first examine our problems. Our first resource problem is that nonrenewable resources are scarcer than ever, and of lower quality. The principal nonrenewable resources are iron; ferro-alloy metals, used in combination with iron; nonferrous metals; precious metals, such as gold, silver, and platinum; industrial minerals, such as sulfur, asbestos, and borates; and fossil fuels. Some problems are specific to a given resource, but they have three things in common: the 3 are all distributed unevenly throughout the earth’s crust, they all cost a lot to obtain in raw form, and they are all decreasing
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