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Silver Shortages Continue

According to Pan American Silver CEO Geoff Burns, “…end users on the commodity side are having trouble locating silver…”

Burns continues to describe that from his perspective he sees pricing support that will in turn, uptick the flow of silver into the markets as investors come back into the market to capitalize on the high silver prices.

Deutsche Bank has forecast $50 silver in 2012. Investors are going to stay with silver because the value of the dollar is going down each day they wake up.

Burns has been focused on silver and is planning to expand silver operations over time.

-Pete Skenandore

Source:
King World News

Colloidal Silver

Here at SilverCoinCommerce™ we pride ourselves on being open minded. After all, it will take motivated, open-minded people to revert back to the use of -real money- in the daily exchange of goods and services. And in light of this we’ll sometimes throw a twist at things, and today seems as good as any other to talk about colloidal silver.

So what is colloidal silver? Simply put, colloidal silver is a liquid suspension of microscopic silver particles. Typically, the silver brew is promoted as an alternative medicine cure-all. Considering silver’s anti-microbial properties it might make sense to go ahead and drink up a colloidal silver cocktail. However. Stop. Consider. Argyria. Never heard of it? Silver does this super cool thing (if you like the color blue). In animals and humans, silver can accumulate in the body and this results in an accumulation of silver or silver sulfide particles in the skin. Remember’s silver use in photography? Well silver/silver sulfide particles do the same thing in skin when exposed to light. Drink enough colloidal silver and you could potentially develop the condition of Argyria, or what we here at SCC refer to as smurfamorphamosis.

Drink up!

Pete Skenandore

About Palladium

Palladium is an element with the chemical symbol Pd. It is a rare silvery-white metal discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1983. William named palladium after the astroid Pallas.

Palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium are a group of elements commonly referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs).

One in four goods manufactured today either contain platinum group metals or has manufacturing processes facilitated by PGMs.

Over half the supply of palladium goes into catalytic converters. Other uses of palladium are computers, mobile phones, capacitors, component plating, televisions, dentistry, medicine, fuel cells, and jewelry.

The rarity of the platinum group metals means extraordinary prices.

-Now you know why that catalytic converter you had to replace cost so much.-

The Research

University professor Hiroshi Kitagawa and his team figured out a way to mix rhodium and silver to produce a new composite metal with similar properties to palladium.

The process nebulises the rhodium and silver by gradually mixing them with heated alcohol. This produced stable material at the atomic level.

DOING THE MATH:

As of this writing rhodium is $2380.00 per ounce, silver is at $30.90 per ounce and palladium is $800.00 per ounce. So, take one ounce of rhodium at $2380. and one ounce of silver at $30.90 and you might net two ounces of palladium-like material. For only $2410.90 + expenses. Or, for around the same cost, you could just buy 3 ounces of real palladium.

Keep working to keep the dream of alchemy alive boys.

Sources:
Kitco.com
Physorg.com
Wikipedia.com
Luxurypalladium.com -image-

Pete Skenandore

Silver Polymer Batteries

Are we past the tipping point on electric vehicle use? According to MSNBC.com, there will be 10 electric cars available for purchase in the U.S. in 2011.

Here’s the list:

• Nissan Leaf $32k
• Chevrolet Volt $41k
• Ford Focus Electric n/a
• Ford Transit Connect n/a
• Mitsubishi I-MiEV $30k
• Honda Fit EV n/a
• Tesla Roadster n/a
• Fisher Karma n/a
• Think n/a
• GEM $7.5k

So, there is a performance issue challenge that all electronic vehicles have in common:

Weight, size, and storage capacity of batteries. You cannot have an electronic vehicle without them. A major focus of manufacturers and scientists will be how to improve battery performance.

Hello Silver Polymer Batteries. Here’s an overview thanks to peswiki.com:
“The Silver Polymer Battery utilizes divalent silver oxide to achieve very high energy and power, yielding up to twice the energy and volume of current lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries.”
“The Silver Polymer Battery has the following advantages:

• Up to 10x the energe to weight ratio of current lead acid and up to 4x energy to weight ratio of NiMH.
• No memory and low self discharge
• Tunable price/performance from low cost to maximum performance preference.
• Dramatically safer than large lithium batteries which are now subject to severe transportation limitations.

I think if one simply does the math. 10 new battery dependent automobiles on the U.S. market. That’s a big deal. What’s around the corner? Are we at the tipping point to bring electronic vehicles into mainstream use? Maybe so… And if that’s the case, then it is safe to assume that we will want better [battery] performance. Silver Polymer Batteries may be the next step. If so, the near $30 per ounce price we’re seeing may just be the tipping point as well, or maybe the tip of the iceberg as far as what silver valuation is and could be in even a small scale conversion from petro burning vehicles.

Pete Skenandore