Comments on: Write speeds for phase-change memory reach record limits

By: Chrispium

Chrispium — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:20:38 +0000

Planetary Resources are not likely to be able to bring to market industrial amounts of rare metals in the next couple decades.

If it was that easy NASA would have done it long ago.

And in two decades? who knows what kind of tech will be available by then. Might have found more new ways to use carbon.

That the Chinese have cornered the market on this resource just means we have to find another resource to make progress with.

Onwards with the eternal war of evolution.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:27:37 +0000

This is what I found at wiki. Looks like Planetary Resources has to get busy to give us phase change memory drives.:

In the Earth’s crust, it is as rare as platinum, but it is in abundance in space.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:18:22 +0000

I really got excited when I started reading this. A computer that boots up instantly! Yay! I haven’t got all minute. It’s such a bother waiting for the computer to boot up every morning that I multiplex by spending the time tying my shoes.

This was good news until I saw that this phase change memory was made with antimony and tellurium.

Most of the antimony in the world comes from a single mine in China. First they got all the neodymium for wind turbines and air conditioner motors and now this! They are gonna sock it to us.

And tellurium is as rare as platinum. Is it going to be in the NEO asteroids with the platinum group metals? Maybe Planetary resources will bring some back in time to give us these phase change memory drives.

You all just wait here while I go look up the platinum group metals.