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![]() "Perley" wrote in message ... On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:26:12 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: "Capt. JG" wrote in message areasolutions... 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 -- "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 ****. Duh! Einstein was once a "college kid." Wilbur Hubbard |
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