Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'

Brent Mattis alphabeta121 at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 11 15:25:17 PST 2001


nah bill, platinum is 600 dollars an ounce, its price has shot up over the 
past five years.

Brent


>From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com>
>Reply-To: cypherpunks at ssz.com
>To: Jim Choate <ravage at einstein.ssz.com>, cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com
>Subject: Re: CDR: Re: Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'
>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:33:25 -0800
>
>At 06:16 PM 03/01/2001 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>>Technology wise, I'm real keen on the Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyst engines,
>>especially Platinum catalyst. Platinum is problematic, rare & expensive.
>>Say 1 out of 1,000 potential hobbyist can afford it. Hydrogen Peroxide
>>can at least theoretically be done in a garage lab, so we'll leave this
>>1-1 for now.
>
>Platinum costs vary, but I've never seen it above $500/oz,
>and I think it's more often about $300, e.g. about the price of
>good marijuana, which far more than 1 in 1000 hobbyists can afford :-)
>How much of it do you need for a can-sat engine's catalyst?
>
>That's separate from questions of whether it's easy to work with,
>or whether you can get the catalyst into the form you need,
>e.g. wire mesh or particles spread on fiberglass or whatever.
>
>
>

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