11 Sep 11
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Is Silicon edible?
At what point will the resources be exhausted?
http://www.worldometers.info/computers/
I'm gonna start stashing up on the old cup o' soups now just in case.
If you piled up every PC ever made into a massive mountain, would the World fall over?
🙄🙄🙄
Edit: The wee men in the Dell advert must be knackered, but they look so happy.
They will need to work a bit faster than that to meet the demand though, work shy fobs.
Edit: But be warned!!!11
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12 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieCertainly not by humans. You can swallow it, and it won't do you any harm (unless you take it in a shape or amount which damages your innards - such as a glass shard), but it won't do you any good at all, either. As far as our digestion is concerned, it is inert
Is Silicon edible?
At what point will the resources be exhausted?
Depends on which resource you mean. The silicon, not any time soon. Hardly any time later, either. It is exceedingly common. Sand is mostly made of it. There is a lot of sand. We'll run out of gold for the connectors long before we run out of silicon for the chips themselves.
Richard
12 Sep 11
Originally posted by Shallow BlueExcellent point about the Gold, this is probably why the Gold markets are going through the roof.
Certainly not by humans. You can swallow it, and it won't do you any harm (unless you take it in a shape or amount which damages your innards - such as a glass shard), but it won't do you any good at all, either. As far as our digestion is concerned, it is inert
[b]At what point will the resources be exhausted?
Depends on which resource you me ...[text shortened]... old for the connectors long before we run out of silicon for the chips themselves.
Richard[/b]
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12 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieThe silver market will be affected more so. In the main gold will remain in its form of bullion, jewellery and other antiques. Silver on the other hand is used in many industrial processes and as it is the best conductor of electricity, makes excellent electrical contacts. It is also being employed in new technologies such as flat screen teles and medicine. COuntries such as China and India are no longer exporting vast quantities of silver, rather they are now importing it. It also makes a great sound investment when currency exchanges are volatile. In times of recession, real commodities such as precious metals will always do well.
Excellent point about the Gold, this is probably why the Gold markets are going through the roof.
I like your style.
12 Sep 11
Originally posted by jimslyp69With quality posts like that, Wiki better watch out.
The silver market will be affected more so. In the main gold will remain in its form of bullion, jewellery and other antiques. Silver on the other hand is used in many industrial processes and as it is the best conductor of electricity, makes excellent electrical contacts. It is also being employed in new technologies such as flat screen teles and medicine ...[text shortened]... e volatile. In times of recession, real commodities such as precious metals will always do well.
Is it true that Sliver kills bacteria, oh great Sage?
13 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieThe recipes we use for silicon go something like this: First drawn through a furnace with a seed inside a vat of liguid silicon, slowly pull it out while twisting it slightly, about one rpm, the seed causes the silicon to grow like when you make crystal sugar.
Is Silicon edible?
At what point will the resources be exhausted?
http://www.worldometers.info/computers/
I'm gonna start stashing up on the old cup o' soups now just in case.
If you piled up every PC ever made into a massive mountain, would the World fall over?
🙄🙄🙄
Edit: The wee men in the Dell advert must be knackered, but they look so h ...[text shortened]... tch?v=wGSHKNacB6Q
Edit: But be warned!!!11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-oHAWmqrPk&NR=1
Then you have a boule of raw silicon. It should be very pure at that point but if not, run it through an RF heating coil which drives impurities away, then cool for about 2 days.
Put inside a slicer kind of like a sausage slicer and slice into 1 or 2 mm thick wafers.
Run it through an Ion Implanter with and Arsenic, phosphorous or boron beam to force the non conducting silicon to be a conductor, either a P or an N type depends on the dopant.
Then there is a coating of photoresist, either positive or negative, depends on what you want at the end.
Then you impart a pattern on it, etch away the photoresist leaving the newly created tracks.
Then another layer of photoresist, new pattern put on, etch the photoresist and now the two patterns have more electrical meaning.
Then you can do recipes that maybe add interconnects and such, which can take many more steps but I don't want to list them all, they vary from product to product.
All of the above is for electronics like computer chips or RF amplifiers or AF amps, or power supply regulator chips and the like, timers like the old 555 timer chip.
If you are making photonic circuits, like we make at Cyoptics or Inplane Photonics,
you don't do anything under the surface of the wafer like the ion implant step which buries the arsenic or whatever under the surface after which you have to anneal the wafer to activate the silicon to be a conductor.
For photonics all the action takes place on TOP of the silicon, parts like waveguides built up like a layer of Erbiuim doped glass for instance, which can be a light amplifier but the process there builds up, etches away, makes grooves on the built up stuff and such, guiding, amplifying, modulating lasers, demodulating lasers, switching laser signals amongst many outputs and such.
13 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieI have an old family recipe for silicon boulibase. I'll see if I can dig it up.😕
Is Silicon edible?
At what point will the resources be exhausted?
http://www.worldometers.info/computers/
I'm gonna start stashing up on the old cup o' soups now just in case.
If you piled up every PC ever made into a massive mountain, would the World fall over?
🙄🙄🙄
Edit: The wee men in the Dell advert must be knackered, but they look so h ...[text shortened]... tch?v=wGSHKNacB6Q
Edit: But be warned!!!11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-oHAWmqrPk&NR=1
13 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieGold is going through the roof because it is the most stable form of currency and the most common forms are exceedingly unstable and are going to become more so in the future... Gold'll come back down though.
Excellent point about the Gold, this is probably why the Gold markets are going through the roof.
I like your style.
14 Sep 11
Originally posted by tomtom232When was the last time you tried paying for a pack of baccie and green Rizzla with Gold?
Gold is going through the roof because it is the most stable form of currency and the most common forms are exceedingly unstable and are going to become more so in the future... Gold'll come back down though.
I can quite positively say my local grocer would not be impressed.
Besides, my pants would keep falling down if I carried nuggets for the vending machine.
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14 Sep 11
Originally posted by WoodgieThat's not really relevant, since the main drivers behind the price hike are the big investers. Insurance companies, big funds, people like that. They want something of which they can buy a lot and hoard it, not something with which to buy other commodities.
When was the last time you tried paying for a pack of baccie and green Rizzla with Gold?
Richard