[time-nuts] gravimeters

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

Hello Yuri, Neville,
 
interesting discussion about natural resources. I hear that with  the global 
soon-to-be-depression that some things may happen (sorry for the  slightly 
off-topic subject, but this may affect us Time Nuts too):
 
* Used high-end equipment will be available for fire-sale prices, much like  
the dot-com-bomb days here in Silicon Valley, except this will now be a  
global phenomenon due to Ebay, bankruptcies, reduction in  demand/production, etc. 
I am looking out for that high-end phase noise system,  and inexpensive 
5071A...
 
* Many folks will unfortunately be out of a job, and will have to live from  
savings. We are seeing this here in Silicon Valley in a big way now.
 
* Fiat currencies, especially the US $ will tank in value due to excessive  
"printing" of the same, making assets in the US a very attractive  investment 
for our friends overseas.
 
* Natural resources especially Gold, Silver, Oil, Helium, etc will rise in  
price due to reduction of production, and backwardation (we have Gold  
backwardation for the first time ever since December 2nd on the Comex), and  
flight-to-safety
 
* Some say there could be civil unrest due to lack of resources, say  heating 
oil, gas, food, etc. Having a Ham station at home may help here. See  what 
happened in Greece over the last week.
 
This could be a long and painful process; with proper preparation one may  
actually come out of this with one's savings more or less intact, and great  
opportunities to invest in wonderful equipment for the time nut.
 
I hope for the best for everyone.
bye,
Said
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/13/2008 05:12:52 Pacific Standard Time, yuri at ostry.ru  
writes:

I don't  think that everything is so bad with helium supply. There is a
lots of He  in a natural gas fields. There is some new gas fields in
Eastern Siberia  where helium concentration exceeds 0.6% by volume. Few
large helium  extraction plants located on large pipelines in Siberia
may double or  triple world's helium supply easily. Winter temperatures
that sometimes  goes well below -40 deg. centigrade there may make
process even more  economical during cold season. The only real problem
is funding, as I  understand this.

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Best regards,
Yuri        mailto:yuri at ostry.ru