Oak Ridge TN borrowed 15,000 tons (30M pounds) of silver. http://www.atomicheritage.org/location/oak-ridge-tn
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Ed Finnell <0000000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Oh Ned. The 'Energy Dept' Showed up mid sixties to reclaim some motor > generators on loan to the Physics Dept. in WWII. They were long since out of > use and stored in the attic. After much work by some hefty guys, they were > finally loaded on the Flatbed. The supervisor said on the way out, the reason > we wanted them back was we ran out of copper for the windings and had to > use silver! 1200 lbs 99.9% pure each. > > > In a message dated 1/25/2016 3:10:46 P.M. Central Standard Time, > mike.a.sch...@gmail.com writes: > > A millisecond would be 1M feet or 186 miles. Even very thin > transformer wire would be pretty heavy. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
