On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:26:12 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:


"Capt. JG" wrote in message
reasolutions...
According to the New Scientist magazine, we're going to run out of zinc by
about 2037.

What's the next best sacrificial metal... magnesium? LOL

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com


The typical Jon Boy lie. The following is from:
http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2...s-of-scarcity/

"The idea that the Indium on Earth is just going to be used up in 2017,
Terbium in 2012 and Zinc in 2037 is just absurd from both a geological and
economic point of view. As an economic matter the market won't simply let us
keep increasing our consumption until we suddenly run out. Rather, when
demand increases relative to supply the price rises and decreases
consumption. If companies really believed zinc was going to simply run out
in 2037 do you think they would be selling it cheaply enough to make it cost
effective to make pennies with it or use it in many other trivial ways?
There isn't any great crisis ahead, merely a rise in price for these metals
that will cause other metals to be substituted where possible and wasteful
uses to be eliminated (eliminate the damn penny!) while essential uses (LCD
displays, CPUs) continue."

I hope this helps explode the myth.

Wilbur Hubbard

You are quoting a collage kid, for Christ's sake! Try quoting a real
live geologist, or someone else who might know something about the
subject you are talking about. You certainly don't, you simple ****.