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WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
May use a fair amount of "platinum and platinum family metals".

Never heard of it? You will Wednesday.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/is-bloom-energy’s-secret-ingredient-zirconia/
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 38,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting stuff.

    Link to the 60 minutes clip

    When gold and silver move together, it signals the coming end of fiat money.



  • << <i>May use a fair amount of "platinum and platinum family metals".

    Never heard of it? You will Wednesday.

    http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/is-bloom-energy’s-secret-ingredient-zirconia/ >>



    If I recall correctly, the 60 minute piece said that it used a metal with similar properties as platinum, but not platinum. They didn't say what the metal was, but said it was far cheaper than platinum. I was thinking maybe pd? The critic on 60 minutes said Bloomboxes had a 20% chance of marketing success. I thought that was pretty good considering how many units they could potentially sell. Does anyone know for sure which metal it uses?
  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,639 ✭✭✭✭
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    Back in the day ...mine has 10 inch woofers ...dual cassette decks....oops!


    Lets hope there is a wiff of Platinum or other PMs in there.....we need a break through.

    Loves me some shiny!

    “Often wrong, but never in doubt.”
  • Does anyone know for sure which metal it uses?

    Yes ..... Can not tell you how I know..... buttttt.....

    Pd.
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,158 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone know for sure which metal it uses?

    Yes ..... Can not tell you how I know..... buttttt.....

    Pd. >>



    Saw the clip from 60 minutes ... I thought they said a "cheap" substitute for Platinum is used. I don't consider Palladium cheap at over $400 per oz.
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    This just in!!!!
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    Palladium discovered on the planet Pandora!!!!!!!
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    Film at eleven!!!






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