New Book on Space Colonies

> I have the pleasure of taking a course right now in
> extraterrestial resource utilization and we recently
> went over this scenario. I've uploaded two slides
> from this lecture to the files section which I think
> you'll find useful:
> http://f5.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/
> 8GZaPwHRK6vxld87by422KXOxQnaNeWl7G5rrJk56-
> 8GcSHqj1FSXv5yRlkoT_X3sda4VbcUHfjvSGz5/platinum_scenario.ppt

I get a "file not found" error from this URL.

> Another future gold mine coming from platinum group of
> metals is that if we ever move to a hydrogen economy,
> palladium prices will sky rocket.

Another nice thing is that PGMs in general are good catalysts for
various processes. Reduction in prices will make all manner of things
easier, and will provide incentives to develop new processes.

> Course if you do find a nice 1km asteroid of this
> type, we are talking about $700 billion assuming the
> market doesn't drop.

The paper by Kargell takes market collapse into account. Just 1% of 700
billion is still 7 billion.

......Andrew