India blackout (670 million)

[ZenOps]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/31/more-than-670-million-people-without-power-as-india-suffers-second-major-blackout/

Whoopsie. Somebody pressed the wrong button.

[codetrap]

Why is almost every car white?

[Modelexis]

Originally posted by codetrap
Why is almost every car white?

Google:

white reflects heat and is a cheaper color to paint cars than other colors, that would be the basic color of choice for manufacturers

[ZenOps]

Yup, hot poor country means car is a luxury, air conditioned car even more so. $6/pound for R-410A and $13/pound for R-22 refridgerant. You would cook in a black car, practicality trumps all.

Side note: An extra 100 pounds of nickel battery in an electric car would have cost $2,300 more just in nickel metal alone in 2007. Luxury electric cars (usually used for heating or cooling) use up to 300 pounds of batteries.

Titanium dioxide makes a very durable and cheap white.

[HyperZell]

Originally posted by ZenOps
Yup, hot poor country means car is a luxury, air conditioned car even more so. $6/pound for R-410A and $13/pound for R-22 refridgerant. You would cook in a black car, practicality trumps all.

Side note: An extra 100 pounds of nickel battery in an electric car would have cost $2,300 more just in nickel metal alone in 2007. Luxury electric cars (usually used for heating or cooling) use up to 300 pounds of batteries.

Titanium dioxide makes a very durable and cheap white.

You should've seen my reaction to this post.

First section, nodding my ahead, yup, uh-huh.

Next section, reading, see "nickel", eyes almost roll out of my head, stop reading, look at who posted it, and sigh.

Can you stop talking about metals for just a little while, pretty please?

[bituerbo]

ZenOps had a jar full of 1955-1981 Canadian nickels at the Calgary Precious Stones Expo. He won bronze.

[max_boost]

Shit that's a nasty situation.

[ZenOps]

I could talk about copper.

At somewhere around $5/pound electrical grids worldwide tend to fail on a greater scale due to theft.

The US attempted to standardize on a 8-gram mostly copper coin as a metal dollar. They produced and still have hundreds of billions of Susan B Anthony, Sacagawea, and Presidential dollars.

Then they realized that if copper ever got to a value enough where an 8-gram dollar was nearly worth a dollar, it would not spur a "copper rush" where people would get out their pickaxes and create an era of unprecendented prosperity - It would in fact, in the socio-economic climate that the US has created in the last 40 years, destroy the power grid of the United states in an orgy of "last man standing".

[FixedGear]

India has electrical power????

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