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To: rails99 who wrote (11214)	4/25/2002 11:12:50 PM
From: Sharp_End_Of_Drill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

Rails, >>>Would that be carbon electrodes provided by companies like UCR, same as with the carbon needed for some fuel cells, provided by UCR?<<< The best carbon comes from refinery cokers. It takes the best of the best to make anode grade coke, this usually comes from a modern unit like a flexi-coker. Just another useful product of crude oil. Don't pay any attention to HCl. It is an ultra cheap commodity. Sharp

To: rails99 who wrote (11214)	4/25/2002 11:30:45 PM
From: t4texas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

off topic - ucr -- i honestly don't know how or where they would get the carbon electrodes for the electrolysis. the only reason i think i understood the nem text in the 10-K was due to my air conditioning repair guy. while he was doing maintenance last summer on an air conditioner of mine, he started telling me about his work in the past at alcoa in rockdale, texas. he told me about the electrolysis process with molten stuff and a carbon electode to get aluminum. i asked him where alcoa got so much electricity. he told me alcoa has it's own private coal fired electic plant in rockdale. the whole rockdale area is a giant seam of coal it turns out. then a story from long ago sank in. i used to work with a fellow whose relatives had a fairly large farm or ranch in the rockdale area. he said alcoa had bought the coal rights to their land, given them a lot of money, helped them relocate satisfactorily, and contracturally agreed to return the farm/ranch in the "same" condition to them in 20 or 30 years(i don't remember the exact number of years.). lots of farmers in the rockdale area must have gotten the same deal. about the pharma hcl -- i assume a company like dow or dd would probably do this in volume, but i really don't know how specialized it is. sorry. yes, the price of gold was nice today. hope the miners move up sometime soon again.