@Ponderable
The trip would pay for itself🙂
except if you shipped say 1000 tons of diamonds to Earth the price would drop to less than silver so don't know what you would get out of it, except for semiconductor manufacturing since diamond is a great heat transfer medium and using them to MAKE transistors, the result is very high voltage tolerant devices, so you can get a transistor able to take a thousand volts, but the gem market would drop through the basement.
@sonhouse saidIn fact I think the price to go to Mercury dig down and get some of the loot would be astronomical 😀
@Ponderable
The trip would pay for itself🙂
except if you shipped say 1000 tons of diamonds to Earth the price would drop to less than silver so don't know what you would get out of it, except for semiconductor manufacturing since diamond is a great heat transfer medium and using them to MAKE transistors, the result is very high voltage tolerant devices, so you can get a transistor able to take a thousand volts, but the gem market would drop through the basement.
@AThousandYoung
In that case the biggest use would be industrial, like I said, diamond is an excellent conductor of heat and has been used in the place of heat sink fluids that conduct heat from a substrate to a heat collector which then cools the chip underneath.
It can be made transistors that can take some 30 times the voltage of silicon and high heat conduction means the ability to make a singe chip with much higher voltages and faster and greater heat flow.
That would make the discovery of massive diamond deposits on Mercury maybe worth the effort to dig them up and transport.
Imagine getting a ton of diamonds shipped to Earth.
Maybe a single 10,000 carat diamond🙂
