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Does Palladium have a use in weapons? ...Jim Thompson
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The Chinese think it has :-)
Is a car a weapon? Catalytic converters are the major application of Palladium.
From Wikipedia: (PGM = Platinum group metal)
Yup. As a trade weapon.
Good reason to try to get Russia into the WTO, I guess. They've got half the world's production. Most of the rest is South Africa and a bit from North America, but half is a lot.
They fell for the cold fusion gag.....
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MIT Professor Has Been Running LENR Device Outputting Excess Heat That?s
14X Input Power Since January"Hagelstein says that the public is invited to take a look at the device in action."
Mikek
That does sound like an MIT press release.
Do Chinese cars have catalytic converters?
That would be a good way to free up access to Chinese rare earths
Yes. Required on all new Chinese cars since 1999.
That's for gasoline cars (almost all of them). Diesel pollution control was supposed to be upgraded to contemporary European standards this year, but they have not got the low sulphur fuel supplies to make it work. (And, from what I've seen, that urea injection gadgetry has problems anyhow). So, they've put it off, supposedly for a year or two.
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Is that a big issue for the Russians?
Probably less so to protect their own tech firms, because there aren't many. AFAIK Russia is predominantly exporting natural gas to Western Europe. Until it runs out.
Norils has the mile-long, half-mile deep abandoned open-pit nickel mine that's visible from orbit. It also lies about as far north as North Slope oil fields in Barrow, Alaska. Whereas I think that most people working around Barrow fly in for shifts in a bunch of trailers, Norilsk is a city of 100,000. Those Russians are a tough bunch.
Are you asking if this means war?
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