Terry Blanton wrote: > But magnets will NOT save the world. Consider this: > > There are known recoverable reserves of Rare Earth Elements in the > entire world of approximately 6 million metric tons. Of this REE about > 20% is neodymium. According to Sean, he expects to get 0.5 W/cc from > his technology. > > The density of NdFeBo magnets is 7.5 g/cc. The Nd content is 27% by > weight; so, the density of Nd in a magnet is 2.03 g/cc. This means > that we can expect to get 0.5 W per 2.03 g of Nd. > > With known extractable reserves of 1.2 million metric tons of Nd in > the world, if we used ALL the Nd to make electricity, we could > generate 1.2 x 10^12 g times 0.25 W/g or 300 Gigawatts. The US > generating capacity in Dec of 2005 was 1.07 Terawatts. > > Terry
Then hopefully he can power the world on C8 ceramic magnets, which are basically 1/3rd the field strength and 1/4th the coercivity as NdFeB magnets.
Paul Lowrance
