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To: The Barracuda™ who wrote (48770)	2/11/2000 8:47:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116756

OT(?) While I question if people will really want to hold this up to their face, it shows there WILL be a need for some precious metals: Methanol fuel cells seen as mobile phone power source By Nadya Anscombe EE Times (02/08/00, 5:04 p.m. EST) SCHAUMBURG, Ill. ? Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratories and Motorola Inc. have designed a liquid methanol fuel cell with an energy density 10 times greater than conventional rechargeable batteries and which could potentially be applied to mobile phones. Such phones could be powered by a small methanol reservoir about the size of an ink-pen cartridge that would last about a week, its developers said. The fuel cell operates at room temperature and, because it does not use air pumps, heat exchangers or other devices used by conventional fuel cells, can fit a broad range of portable electronic products. According to the engineers, a catalyst ? typically a mixture of platinum and ruthenium (cont) eet.com As the solder used in these will be (in part) silver, and there is solder in everything electronic, & electronics are "the future" can the world long deny the need for profits in the metals industry?