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  1. Gold not good, historicall by skoda · · Score: 2 · on Micropayment Wars Are Over... PayPal Wins?

    IANAB (I am not a broker), and I don't know anything about e-gold. But, I do know that gold has not been a good investment over the past 20 years.

    http://www.kitco.com/charts/histori calgold.html Go here, and do some historical graphs.

    Historical average 1833-1999: $25/oz to 1968. Then it lept to $600 in 1980, dropped to $400 in '82, and bounced between $300 - $400 until now.

    Remember: you want investments to increase in value, and debts to decrease. Investing in gold & storage seems to reverse that. :(

    But I'm just an optics geek, and not a gold guru.
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    D. Fischer

  2. Re:Details? by esperandus · · Score: 1 · on 24-Hour Power Cells for Wearable PCs
    Hydrogen can be prepared easily through simple electrolysis of water. Purification of the sample is also trivial. Commercial untis are lieky to be available (if they are not, I have a great busines idea for you VCs out there...)

    Incidentally, there actually are gas staions that sell hydrogen (in germany and in North Dakota; bith as 'proof of concept' thingies). Oxidant production will not be a problem.

    Price and value, OTOH...has anyone checked out the latest asking price for platinum?