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A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium
Burlap writes "Using technology developed at MIT, 4-person startup Avanti Metal hopes to reduce the cost of producing Titanium from the current $40 per pound to a mere $3. The article discusses how a special combinations of oxides and electrolysis separates the titanium metal from the Earth's abundant titanium oxide ore."
I can have brass, silver, gold, and titanium pantalones! And perhaps a big metal unit as well!
Nobody uses the Titanium. Servers just use a MD Pteron if they want price-performance. And Onroe is just around the corner. Even cheaper Titaniums aren't worth the bother. Ntel can't drop the product line as a matter of face, but consumers just aren't buying it.
Sweet deal, that's what.. +4, +5 against illegal immigrants?
No, seriously. Who would buy titanium chainmail? Some pretty serious D&Ders in here...
Oh well, at least it'll drive down the price of the MacBook.
Now I can buy the colorful lights for the warp drive engine instead spending all the money on plating the hull with expensive titanium. Warp 1 has never been so cheap!
Thank God! I thought the Steel Age was never going to end!
-Peter
Titanium foil hats HERE WE COME!
I say your 3-cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!
Oh ok I'll take my tablets now...
One of these days I'm moving to Theory - everything works there
Normally I hate getting chain letters, but at $40/lb, it might not be such a bad deal. I'm not worried about bad luck so I'd just sell them when the price is high. Shall I email you my snail-mail address?
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
Your favorite sig sucks
Mean while the price of titanium anti-corrosion coating will increase from $3 to $40 per pound.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
Was it he who dropped this info to the startup? Did he also drop the transparency trick too? Please say yes.
Unless you were to construct a nuclear power plant to directly heat the titanium oxide mixture using the reactor pile itself.
a ctor_systems.pdf
Unfortunatley, the world market for radioactive titanium is rather small.
You will need some sort of high temperature heat exchanger that will not, itself, become radioactive. I don't think water will do. Actually, you may have trouble just running the reactor that hot. I think you will need a gaseous core reactor.
http://gif.inel.gov/roadmap/pdfs/non-classical_re
That's rather beyond the current state of the art.
Yep, I've got a friend who makes maille too, says the same thing (unless you're him, K?). I tried to sell him on the idea of Unobtanium, but he said his customers prefer either Titanium or Expensium. Hardtoobtainium is pretty good too, but suffers from consistency of supply issues.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
This quite possibly the most informative post I have ever read on Slashdot. Seriously.
Please endeavor to learn other areas of technology so you can continue to inform me.
Like airports?
That's sabotage! In order NOT to get killed in ad costs by being slashdotted, techreview redirected the page-of-slashdottedness back to an ad on Slashdot thus screwing slashdot and something, something, something....
It made sense when I started typing. It's too damn early...
--Mike