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On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:53:22 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 7/12/24 18:16, john larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:45:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
>> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/07/2024 15:25, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:25:51 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:18:39 +1000
>>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/07/2024 7:48 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:30:41 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:33:41 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>>    
>>>>>>>>> On 7/11/24 13:00, Joe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:29:33 +0100 The Natural Philosopher
>>>>>>>>>> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <sdnip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do you think all those homeless people are going to do when
>>>>>>> the debt bomb finally explodes and there's no more money for cops,
>>>>>>> the army - or anything else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's a "debt bomb" and how would it explode?
>>>>>> As long as society keeps generating and exchanging goods and services
>>>>>> it's not going to run out of money, which is just medium of exchange.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What use is the means of exchange if you can't exchange it for anything
>>>>> meaningful?
>>>>>
>>>>> We are already past the point where the alternatives for many countries
>>>>> are default or hyperinflation, which is just s more spectacular form of
>>>>> default, and an involuntary one. It happens slowly at first, then all
>>>>> at once.
>>>>
>>>> Inflation is a government's way to spend (and usually waste) money
>>>> that it doesn't have, by borrowing money that will never be paid back.
>>>> It is essentially stealing from its citizens, especially from savings.
>>>>
>>>> It's dynamically unstable and often runs away. The thing about
>>>> inflation is that there's never enough of it. The more you have, the
>>>> more you need.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The price of a loaf of bread, in terms of gold, hasn't changed in 600 years.
>>> A friend bought �10,000 worth of gold in 2004, Its worth �80,000 now
>> 
>> Gold is fascinating. As a chemical, it wouldn't be worth anything like
>> what is has always been. You can't eat it or build much out of it.
>> 
>> Given a starving village or country or world, gold won't feed people
>> by itself.
>> 
>> People talk about finding a solid-gold comet that's worth a trillion
>> trillion dollars. That's silly. It would grossly devalue the price of
>> gold.
>
>Cheap gold would be great! Lots of things would be made of gold or
>its alloys if it hadn't been so expensive! Yes, the economy would
>be severely upset if gold were to suddenly become a commodity like
>steel and copper.
>
>> 
>> Diamonds similarly have an undeserved dollar equivalent.
>> 
>
>Diamonds are useful too, hard, inert, abrasion resistant and the
>best solid heat conductor. Wouldn't you love to have diamond heat
>sinks?
>
>Jeroen Belleman

Isotopically pure diamond heat sinks.

Seems like gaseous diffusion or centrifuges would work better for
light elements than it does for uranium.