Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'

[Jim Windle]

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. 
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:25:17   Brent Mattis wrote:
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>nah bill, platinum is 600 dollars an ounce, its price has shot up over the 
>past five years.
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>Brent
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>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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>>
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