Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar!felix!haynes From: haynes@felix.ucsc.edu (99700000) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Apropos of Aluminum saves energy (was Re: Gold saves energy) Message-ID: <16679@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 22:56:48 GMT Article-I.D.: darkstar.16679 References: <1991Jun5.163512.1314@zoo.toronto.edu> <2464@gold.gvg.tek.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Open Access Computing Lines: 15 During World War II a lot of silver was taken out of the national stockpile and used to make power busbars for plants producing aluminum (which requires lots of electricity). I guess the reason was that the silver was available and all the copper they could get was needed for war purposes where it was expendable. (Source of this is a vaguely remembered story from some magazine like Popular Mechanics.) -- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu haynes@ucsccats.bitnet "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art." Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle