Silver

sandyshoes · December 03, 2009, 05:41:18 PM

Reaperman, you don't look like you even have any lungs with all those bones showin, so how you coughin'??

chipwich · December 03, 2009, 09:40:27 PM

Count me in on silver too! It is more rare than most think. Silver mining is down and it can be used as both an industrial metal as well as an inflation hedge. I definitely like silver better than gold and think it will continue to do well into the next several months.

Will silver pop? Probably not, but I can see it trading in the $22- $25 per once range in the not too distant future.

chipwich · December 10, 2009, 12:20:14 AM

I was just watching some Bloomberg and it looks like the US dollar may be stabilizing a bit, so silver and gold may trade within a stable range. Silver and gold may be on stable or short term decline.

I still remain bullish on both metals next year. Maybe we give a short correction. I would never try to time it, and maybe I'm dumb, but I plan on increasing my silver investments in the beginning of 2010 (January).

samiam · December 10, 2009, 03:50:15 PM

another new use for silver
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B642U20091207?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=76

Reaper man · December 13, 2009, 01:22:09 AM

Quote from: sandyshoes on December 03, 2009, 05:41:18 PM
Reaperman, you don't look like you even have any lungs with all those bones showin, so how you coughin'??

oh har har ;p

Bostech · December 16, 2009, 12:48:13 AM

Well,there might be more use for silver.

chipwich · December 16, 2009, 01:11:08 AM

Wow! try looking straight at that thing on a sunny desert day

Dog Walker · December 16, 2009, 08:49:35 AM

No silver there. That's an Audi A8 which has an aluminum body. It's been polished and clear coated. Only a oil sheik could have afforded it the labor it took!

Ocklawaha · December 16, 2009, 09:29:14 AM

Quote from: chipwich on December 16, 2009, 01:11:08 AM
Wow! try looking straight at that thing on a sunny desert day

Ouch! Bad enough if the car is black or red, in the Mojave it gets hot enough to melt the glues inside the car, bakes the plastic surfaces distorting the surface and drying it to a faded, brittle, egg shell.

But the worst part of a silver car is trying to run it through the Tarnex, smells like rotten eggs.

OCKLAWAHA

CS Foltz · January 03, 2010, 06:51:05 PM

Certain types of high power out conduit, solid as well as flat are silver soldered to reduce line losses! Certain flexible transmitting coax is done the same way at this very time! Nothing has been developed to replace it and crimped connecters do not work in a high output transmission line.

Bostech · January 03, 2010, 07:31:59 PM

I wonder why they dont use water pipes to run electricity thru?
I mean dedicated pipes with water in it.

Sportmotor · January 03, 2010, 11:53:58 PM

The car I belive is CROME not Silver.
&
water would destroy the wiring

Dog Walker · January 04, 2010, 12:13:19 PM

Bos, fresh water is a very poor conductor of electricity. Salt water is better, but neither are as good as solid metal of any kind. Silver is the best conductor (if I remember Physics 101 correctly) and even the silver oxides that form tarnish conduct electricity just fine.

Sport, the car is polished aluminum, not chrome. Gaudy as hell either way.

buckethead · January 04, 2010, 05:22:41 PM

IIRC, Gold is the best metallic conductor of electricity.

Dog Walker · January 04, 2010, 05:42:27 PM

You are probably right, but I thought that contacts were gold plated just to keep them from oxidizing and arcing. Either one is too expensive for anything but electronics. In my audiophile days, before the hearing damage, paid a bloody fortune for some silver wire connectors for pre-amp to amp and CD player to amp. Now, of course, you use digital optical and a last stage D-A converter.