<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>Spike, please note that I didn't make the statement below. John Clark did. In fact, I responded to him with:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span>http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2013-May/077523.html<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>If gold became cheap
enough, I could see it being used in cookware and other places where it would normally be considered extravagant.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dan</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> See my SF short story "Residue":</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">http://www.amazon.com/Residue-ebook/dp/B00BS3T0RM/ -- US</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- UK</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00BS3T0RM -- Canada</font><br> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div
dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike@rainier66.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Dan' <dan_ust@yahoo.com>; 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 24, 2013 4:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [ExI] Gold<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5448713721"><div><div class="yiv5448713721WordSection1"><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan<br><b><span style="color:#1F497D;">…</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">
</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">>>…</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I don't think the weight concern would matter all that much here, especially if this were being used in restaurants. People already use cast iron and ceramic pans that are quite heavy. Yeah, not everyone does, but if those eggs taste really good and the price is not all that great, one can easily imagine the gold frying pan becoming something many people have, but they only lug it out when they want to make a special meal as is done now with special cookware.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:
black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">…</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> and would be so soft you could bend the pan with your hands, so I don't think it would be a big market even if the metal was cheap.</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">…</span></div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">If you wanted to make a pan, you would use copper, with a flash coating of nickel to the copper, nickel-chromium to the nickel, gold flashed to the nichrome. The total amount of gold isn’t all that much, and copper is a great heat conductor, so you would get the advantages of even heating and material strength of copper, and low stick surface of the gold. I haven’t ever seen anything like that on the market, so perhaps that stack I suggested would fail under heat cycling.</span></div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv5448713721MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">spike </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
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