Wrong. Thinking mining is of strategic value to a nation, that owning mining allows "securing other things/data" or whatever gibberish he said, among the many other things others can point out all are "basics". Hyperbole? You handwaived over the foundational costs inherent in raw materials and didn't bother to run the numbers, but pointed out a fantastical vision for a grid. YOU DID NOT EVEN DO THE NAPKIN MATH THAT MATTERS FOR YOUR OWN PET THEORY. Hyperbole is all yours.

Don't know him.