I guess this goes to one of the core questions that this study is about. How do we create the North American demand for these products? What is the downstream pull that we can create so that it is more viable than going to China for these products? The automotive sector and the battery strategy are part of it, but as we've also heard, that's not the only part.
What are the different things we can do? There are offtake agreements that can be negotiated between mines and downstream users of those products. There's the support we've seen that's starting to flow from governments to help a cobalt refinery relaunch, and once it's up and running, the market conditions can then take over.
We may need some seed funding. We talked in our presentation about the importance of pilot projects and then helping them to commercialize. Once they're up and running, the market forces will take over, but we need to create that internal North American demand, supported as well by European demand. This is a geopolitical issue that is taking shape faster than I think many of us realize. We need to be really laser-focused on it.