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  1. Re:let's go back to glass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Study Suggests BPA-Free Plastics Are Just As Harmful To Health (gizmodo.com)

    Aluminum cans aren't and that's one of the reasons that they are easily recyclable.

    Many aluminum food and beverage containers sold in the United States feature a protective liner on the interior of the can containing trace amounts of Bisphenol A (BPA).

  2. Metal Air fuel cells are not new by H0p313ss · · Score: 1 · on Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries?

    Alcan tried to commercialize the aluminum-air battery 30 years ago, and largely failed. They even spun off a subsidiary called Alupower, here's their patent portfolio: http://www.patentgenius.com/assignee/AlupowerInc.html

    A more knowledgable article here.

  3. Re:American Agri-business Versus DOD by ncc74656 · · Score: 1 · on Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power

    We have those in the U.S. too, but we call them 'cans.'

    Maybe I'm running the risk of a "whoosh" with this, but yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as an aluminum bottle. (They're not just for Budmilloors megaswill, either...I've run across Moose Drool in 16-oz. aluminum bottles.)

  4. Re:Why Water? by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 1 · on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water

    Why don't you just extract the energy directly from the aluminum in one conversion step instead of 2?

    What you are describing is the Aluminum-air battery (or fuel cell - it's about half way in between.)

    There are difficulties, for instance the fouling of the anode with the hydroxide residue. There are (rather old, and unconfirmed) reports that these problems have been adequately solved, but there is still little interest in them. Over all, I think this AlGa Hydrogen production scheme is more complicated and much less efficient.

    Some information is here:
    http://www.aluminum.org/Template.cfm?Section=Techn ology_QandA&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDis play.cfm&ContentID=1159

    I think the lack of interest is from the massive change in infrastructure that would be required to handle the reprocessing of the aluminum waste. This hydrogen generation method has the same problem.
  5. Re:Too Bad? by Woundweavr · · Score: 1 · on Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland
    (That will teach me to accidentally hit 'submit')

    Additionally, you're wrong.
    Brown University
    After a summer of exhibition to the public, the team will deconstruct the house for transport down to Washington and will begin its final construction Sept. 29, entering the final phase of a two-year long journey.

    Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
    he testing and characterization process is ongoing and the initial results were released on September 14, 2004. Contractor will be performing the cleaning and deconstruction of the building. ...
      In early 2004, an accord between Deutsche Bank and its insurers was reached to bring down the Deutsche Bank building. The deconstruction will remove the shrouded Deutsche Bank building that had been a constant grim reminder of the events of September 11, 2001.

    Under the terms of the accord, LMDC was able to purchase the land and will pay for the deconstruction of the building.

    Aluminum Assoc
    Officials at PNC Financial Services, for example, plan to recycle more than 70 percent of the downtown Pittsburgh building they recently began deconstructing, a trend being seen at more demolition sites nationwide.

    Cement Group
    Fort Lauderdale Airport Interchange - This interchange project involved many challenges including context sensitive aesthetics, uninterrupted access over railroad tracks to the international airport, complex bridge arrangement, tight radii of curvature, and deconstruction of existing segmental bridges. Balanced cantilever precast concrete segmental bridges were selected because of their pleasing aesthetics and functionality suitable for the urban setting.

    I could go on for quite a while. Get off your high horse.
  6. Re:Aluminium by canadian_right · · Score: 2 · on Sheared Aluminum's Odd, Possibly Useful Behavior
    Actually, Canada refines almost as much as the USA, and Latin America refines a fair bit too.

    2001 total production
    Canada 2,582,787
    USA 2,636,955

    Canada has lots of cheap Hydro electric power which is required to smelt aluminium. Lots more stats at www.aluminium.org and a nice overview here Aluminium industry over the last 45 years. And a real nice summary with easy to read tables, aluminuim PDF

  7. Re:Titanium? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

    Around the turn of the 20th century, Aluminum was the hip, new, with-it metal. It was also difficult to refine at the time. So for a while, it was a precious metal. I seem to recall some monarch having an aluminum crown being made.