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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;goldmark, post: 1534803, member: 38168&quot;]Platinum is always &quot;too expensive&quot;, the first approaches to find a replacement for Platinum are going back to the 80s. In recent times new breakthroughs in basic research are being reported periodically, but in the end it needs to be transfered to a doable industrial process. Even Palladium was once seen as a &quot;cheap&quot; replacement, today with prices skyrocketing the advantage seems to be melting away more and more, which is not surprising with supplies being limited (total ground reserves are if my memory serves right even more limited than that for Platinum). If it would be possible without little difficulty to find a very cheap replacement with similar levels of usable technical efficiency and greatly reduced financial expenditure it&#039;s like a dream come true and would have been done a long time ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Technical development will move forward, and the search will continue eventually they may find something or not, who knows. If a solution should emerge, it will take a good time from lab to product in my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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