Good choice in elements. I highly recommend the book "Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements." by John Emsley. Iridium is a great and rare element. It is often combined with Osmium. It often comes from space. Osmium has a very long radio-active 1/2 life. We're talking like 4 quad-rillion years. Cadmium and cerium may have longer half-lifes (tens of quad-rillion years (10 to the plus 15 years/CERIUM-50 million billionths of years half life!!!)). On the other end of the spectrum we're talking about titanium doped sapphire lasers....which can produce information at 10 to the negative 15 seconds (4 million billioneths of a second!!!/4 fermtoseconds). Do you want a longlasting and/or quick producing metal alloy?
The future goes through Alaska. The bridge/tunnel that will be built to connect Asia/Siberia will go through Alaska. The melting Alaskan glaciers will possibly help the lower 48 from drought. The oil and gas from Alaska will provide the materials for greenhouses to grow ample future foodstock. The oil/gas/plastic will also be used to create huge "medusa bags" that will transport Alaskan fresh water south to California (not to mention carry Greenlandic water south to Africa/Sahara). TransCanada recently stated they were thinnking of spending approx $30 billion to build a pipeliine from Alaska to the lower 48. Perhaps a "double wide" railway might be built instead that can transfer both fuel and passengers/product north-south. The Alaskan motto is "North to the futre."...perhaps some politicians recognize that...
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Good choice in elements. I highly recommend the book "Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements." by John Emsley. Iridium is a great and rare element. It is often combined with Osmium. It often comes from space. Osmium has a very long radio-active 1/2 life. We're talking like 4 quad-rillion years. Cadmium and cerium may have longer half-lifes (tens of quad-rillion years (10 to the plus 15 years/CERIUM-50 million billionths of years half life!!!)). On the other end of the spectrum we're talking about titanium doped sapphire lasers....which can produce information at 10 to the negative 15 seconds (4 million billioneths of a second!!!/4 fermtoseconds). Do you want a longlasting and/or quick producing metal alloy?
The future goes through Alaska. The bridge/tunnel that will be built to connect Asia/Siberia will go through Alaska. The melting Alaskan glaciers will possibly help the lower 48 from drought. The oil and gas from Alaska will provide the materials for greenhouses to grow ample future foodstock. The oil/gas/plastic will also be used to create huge "medusa bags" that will transport Alaskan fresh water south to California (not to mention carry Greenlandic water south to Africa/Sahara). TransCanada recently stated they were thinnking of spending approx $30 billion to build a pipeliine from Alaska to the lower 48. Perhaps a "double wide" railway might be built instead that can transfer both fuel and passengers/product north-south. The Alaskan motto is "North to the futre."...perhaps some politicians recognize that...