Terry Blanton wrote:
But magnets will NOT save the world. Consider this:
There are known recoverable reserves of Rare Earth Elements in the
entire world of approximately 6 million metric tons. Of this REE about
20% is neodymium. According to Sean, he expects to get 0.5 W/cc from
his technology.
The density of NdFeBo magnets is 7.5 g/cc. The Nd content is 27% by
weight; so, the density of Nd in a magnet is 2.03 g/cc. This means
that we can expect to get 0.5 W per 2.03 g of Nd.
With known extractable reserves of 1.2 million metric tons of Nd in
the world, if we used ALL the Nd to make electricity, we could
generate 1.2 x 10^12 g times 0.25 W/g or 300 Gigawatts. The US
generating capacity in Dec of 2005 was 1.07 Terawatts.
Terry
Or possibly some type of new magnet -->
http://www.physorg.com/news84643085.html
Paul
