World ruthenium reserves are estimated to be about 5,000 tonnes; world production is 12 tonnes per year. At current rate of usage, that would last 400 years. However, ramping up the usage to produce industrial quantities of fuel-grade H would deplete the reserves faster, and the easy-to-reach reserves will be exhausted soonest, of course.
While estimated reserves of Yttrium are greater, it does not occur as a free element in nature; it must be extracted (for example from uranium ore).
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/ru.htm
https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/y.htm
In any case, the project looks more promising than cold fusion.
Originally posted by @moonbus The two metals are very rare, and toxic.
World ruthenium reserves are estimated to be about 5,000 tonnes; world production is 12 tonnes per year. At current rate of usage, that would last 400 years. However, ramping up the usage to produce industrial quantities of fuel-grade H would deplete the reserves faster, and the easy-to-reach reserves will be exha ...[text shortened]... h.com/periodic/elements/y.htm
In any case, the project looks more promising than cold fusion.
There have been serious studies of cold fusion and so far nothing. It would be great if it was real but so far is seems to be just another scam.
Originally posted by @sonhouse It is "Falong' which means round eye, IE, westerner. I lived there for about 3 years. Up north in Chang Rai 400 miles (600Km) north of Bankok.
Hawaiian also has a word for people with round eyes, but I forgot what it is. Might be 'howlie' (phonetic spelling); anyway, their equivalent of 'gringo'.
@moonbussaid Hawaiian also has a word for people with round eyes, but I forgot what it is. Might be 'howlie' (phonetic spelling); anyway, their equivalent of 'gringo'.
Hawley or Howley, forget which. My wife's X was pure blood Hawaiian and our grandkids are half, she went to school in Hawaii, sent there as a punishment for being a bad girl when she was 14😉 O fate worse than death, to be forced to live with her brother who was a colonel in the USAF ATT.