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- From: se_schn@pavo.concordia.ca [ Ranfry ]
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Re: Gold from Seawater?
- Message-ID: <Nov.17.22.30.32.1992.24999@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:30:33 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- In article <Nov.11.17.33.54.1992.19911@planchet.rutgers.edu>, uad1226@dircon.co.uk (Sean Jackson) writes...
- >If nanotechnology made it possible to extract gold from seawater, it
- >would reduce gold's value. Do you think this might happen? If so what
- >would be a good store of value?
-
- Considering that most countries in the world do NOT back their
- money with gold, it would not make all that much difference to the value
- of Earth's currency. Also, the cost to extract the gold out of seawater
- would probably remain too high for the worth of gold. We have been
- extracting gold from seawater, in small amounts for experimental purposes, for
- decades, so this is nothing really new.
-