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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Isonics Corp. ISON
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (901)12/6/2000 5:41:04 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 1099
 
Zeev, SInce Si28 is not at all rare and exists as a fairly high % in raw silicon why should the separation cost as much as $75,000 per KG?
It seems to me that there will soon be many people trying to provide this material to industry.
The methods are mature, being laser excitation, Gas centrifuges and diffusion methods with the and they are all low efficiency users of electricity. I am not sure which one is the most efficient. Possibly laser-centrifuge-diffusion is the hierarchy from best to worst. None of them are good, but what are the economics of this extraction process. EP will charge a lot until another producer joins the party. What about the US governments factory going from swords to plowshares and using some of their capacity to do this? Is this forbidden by law?

Bill
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