Monthly Archives: July 2009

Investment opportunity spice metals?

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Until recently, I was unaware that it called. "Spice metals" are. This refers to some very rarely occurring metallic elements that are not irreplaceable especially for modern technologies, including key enabling technologies and because of their special properties (still) indispensable. There are over 50 of these rare metal elements.

Each computer chip is now "seasoned" with up to 40 of these elements, a radio telephone with up to 25 of these fine metals, eg. B. Coltran. Light-emitting diodes (LED lights) come without gallium or indium, depending on the color, nothing. Also flat panel displays, LEDs (displays), but also CIS solar cells require indium.

As commodities experts, z. B. Armin Reller from the University of Augsburg stress, threatening some of these spice metals to become scarce or their extraction extremely expensive. Nevertheless, they are still subjected in part to strong price fluctuations. So increased in 2007, prices for platinum and palladium at record levels, with palladium, however, formed a production overhang - the prices went promptly back down.

Platinum is known to be used for autocatalysts, but - if one wanted to equip all cars of this world so that there would be problems, since the metal has to be won more complex. So ten tons of ore must be processed in order to extract one ounce of platinum. A portion of the platinum from the catalyst is blown into the air and finally stored in our lungs, another part never gets into recycling, but remains somewhere in old cars, only 30-40 percent of the catalysts are given to recycling companies. (More ...)

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Adriana's nightmare or as an Erasmus student in Gaziantep (Turkey)

Saturday, July 11, 2009
Ausschnitt aus "El Pais"v. 2.7.2009

Excerpt from "El Pais" v. 2.7.2009

Erasmus grants are very popular among young people: You can land and people, and it usually remains in addition to studying plenty of time to enjoy the cultural life of each city. In many places have become a part of the cityscape Erasmus students. There are Erasmus Pogramme in all European countries - but also in Turkey. They are used by the European Commission. ie, funded by European taxpayers' money and are so used to the integration, mutual discovery.

In the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep University, there is also an international Erasmus program.
The region is part of the Kurdish settlement area and is close to Syria, Iraq and Iran.

Adriana Espinosa is a 24 year old student of the Spanish University of Seville. She wants to be a journalist abroad and received an Erasmus grant for the Southern Turkey. On 15 September 2008 she arrives in Gaziantep. It endeavors, so she tells to integrate quickly into the city and shares a student apartment with two Turkish women (Kurdish origin as it turns out), with which it is familiar for a professor. Man befriends per se, and on one occasion she accompanied her colleagues at a meeting of the legal Kurdish party DTP. Adriana against El País: "I did not feel that it was an illegal gathering. and the police, who watched us, told us nothing, so I am completely calm gone, with material for a work for the university. "

A few days later makes Adriana with other students a trip to the nearby Syria. Back in her room in Gaziantep, she finds scattered her clothes on the floor, the cabinets open her laptop is gone. The Turkish police had been in their absence the apartment. Your apartment two comrades were immediately taken for questioning and accused of supporting the illegal Kurdish PKK, zuammen with another 17 Kurds. Adriana takes refuge in a panic in the apartment of a Spanish fellow student. (More ...)

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Be fireflies is hard - Glühwürmelin as much! (Days Buchau plan)

Wednesday, 08 July, 2009.

Just in time from the first of June until well into July there Glühwürmcheninvasion. The fireflies, also called Firefly or shimmering green lantern, penetrate all cracks and openings of the house in order to approach the local light sources: incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes, computer screens, emergency lights, halogen lamps and LEDs are their undoing; I do not like to think of the shimmering violet, Brutzellaute of itself decisive Flykiller my neighbor ...

I have my hands full, pick up the stray guys again and to throw out the window. This activity I go on for hours. But it's just damage limitation, because the guys there are in fact males, are convinced that all the artificial light sources are ready for mating females, Leuchtkäferinnnen, Glühwürmelinnen and shimmering green Laternchinnen. (More ...)

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