Here's a scoop I published yesterday on Substack. While the U.S. is hyping a mineral deal with Ukraine, America is actually advancing rare earth mining in another part of the former Soviet Union: Central Asia.

Specifically, Kazakhstan. 

https://kaufman.substack.com/p/forget-ukraine-americas-real-rare

A warm Farcaster welcome to @kaufman!

He's a reporter focused on energy, climate change and geopolitics.

Give him a follow!

Reporter and writer. I cover energy, climate change and geopolitics. Contact me via my website www.alexanderckaufman.com and subscribe to kaufman.substack.com.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Welcome @kaufman! Awesome to have you here. 

What do you feel is one of the most important specific questions you are working on now?

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

Thank you! I'm fascinated by the future of nuclear power; how we're going to get enough clean electricity to both decarbonize and meet booming demand from AI, a/c and electrification; and where we're going to get the minerals we need for the energy transition.

Where writers share, grow, and get paid — one post at a time.

Yeah— this feels like fascinating and intersection of a ton of the most important roads of geopolitics.

Would you consider putting your Substack content on farcaster in a way that would let us access within the feed and pay using crypto? Maybe @paragraph?