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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2238609, member: 27832"]"Forever" is a <i>very</i> long time, especially when you're talking about electronic technology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every electronic device needed some amount of strontium, barium, or another active metal as a "getter" -- until vacuum tubes were supplanted by solid-state circuitry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every electronic device needed a certain amount of lead for its solder -- until enough countries banned that use of lead to keep it out of landfills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost every electronic device <i>today</i> needs some amount of gold and silver -- but that amount grows ever smaller, and the more expensive the metals get, the more motivated manufacturers will be to find substitutes, or to do an end-run around the entire feature that demands them today.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are the unforeseen changes that sweep away an entire current approach. Just ask one recent poster about the demand curve for silver in photography. (Welcome back, btw, Kurt!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2238609, member: 27832"]"Forever" is a [I]very[/I] long time, especially when you're talking about electronic technology. Every electronic device needed some amount of strontium, barium, or another active metal as a "getter" -- until vacuum tubes were supplanted by solid-state circuitry. Every electronic device needed a certain amount of lead for its solder -- until enough countries banned that use of lead to keep it out of landfills. Almost every electronic device [I]today[/I] needs some amount of gold and silver -- but that amount grows ever smaller, and the more expensive the metals get, the more motivated manufacturers will be to find substitutes, or to do an end-run around the entire feature that demands them today. And then there are the unforeseen changes that sweep away an entire current approach. Just ask one recent poster about the demand curve for silver in photography. (Welcome back, btw, Kurt!)[/QUOTE]
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