Lumifer comments on What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility? - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Punoxysm 25 March 2014 01:53AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (85)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 26 March 2014 03:19:14PM 2 points [-]

If gold were as cheap as copper, what would we do with it that we don't do already?

A lot, actually. Gold is very ductile and completely impervious to corrosion, just to mention the first two characteristics that came to mind.

Comment author: CronoDAS 27 March 2014 04:31:52AM 0 points [-]

And a really good electrical conductor. It's already used extensively in the integrated circuit industry, although they don't really use very much by weight...