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Article #4639Re: Urban Myths again
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 19:11
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 19:11
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In article <13085@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes: >consider that the product was costed at about $1,000 of raw material and >$5,000 of electricity each, you know it's a lot of power. > >We're talking 3-inch cylinders of pure ruby or sapphire, about 15 >inches long, BTW. Um, excuse me, but I'll buy the $5k in energy cost, but there isn't any way you're going to convince me that the "raw materials" for 106 cubic inches of solid ruby or sapphire are going to cost $1000. I'd still be leery if you said $1000000, but it's a little closer to the ballpark. Perhaps you included the materials for the processing, but not the actual minerals, eh? --Blair "And if you didn't, where did you say this place was?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!bu.edu!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Urban Myths again Message-ID: <5663@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 13 Apr 90 19:11:40 GMT References: <1209@gtx.com> <14306@lambda.UUCP> <1646@rsiatl.UUCP> <8830@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <6798@ae.sei.cmu.edu> <13085@ucsd.Edu> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 20