Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:20636 sci.energy:5119 Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!du248-12.cc.iastate.edu!sehari From: sehari@iastate.edu (Sehari Babak) Subject: Gold saves energy. Message-ID: Summary: Gold saves energy. Keywords: gold Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 00:30:17 GMT Lines: 14 Recently, there were much talk about way to reduce the energy consumption. This not only saves money, but eventually saves life as well. Having this in mind, I am curious that haw much energy would we save. If we gold plate all Al wires that is used for transportation of the energy? Let us assume we have one mile of wire. It would probably costs around say $1000 to $2000 to gold plate this wire. Now depending on the current that passes through this wire, we might save $2000 to $4000 in the first year alone. This saving might increase even further, if the oil prices goes up again, which is a very likely possibility due to declining oil reserves of the world. Has any research been conducted in this way of saving energy.