David Honig wrote:
At 07:11 PM 3/11/01 -0500, Jim Windle wrote:
According to Friday's Wall Street Journal spot platinum last closed at $588 per ounce and is up from $473 per ounce one year ago.
Fer chrissakes you can use a number of cheaper chemicals. For those annoying satellite launches that you have to field-improvise, blood can be used to decompose peroxide :-)
Oh, all you want is enzymes then? I bet we can rig something up with bacteria. When it comes to making chemicals - well, chemicals without annoying heavy metals in them anyway - microbiology is your friend. Things that want nothing more than to reproduce themselves 3 times an hour tend to be quite easy to get hold of in bulk :-) Kinder to the neighbours as well, unless you are in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan in which case those nice men from the Pentagon will be sending a cruise missile your way as soon as they hear that you are getting into production scale. On the other hand I had this vague idea that peroxide sort of decomposed itself. And I bet burnt protoplasm buggers up the exhaust nozzles no end. Ken Brown