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>Want to manufacture a billion smartphones for Africa using efficient gold circuits? How much of that gold would we ever see again? (How much of the gold we us
by unimpressive 13y ago
>Want to manufacture a billion smartphones for Africa using efficient gold circuits?
How much of that gold would we ever see again? (How much of the gold we use in electronics in wealthy nations do we ever see again?)
- gwern 13y ago> (How much of the gold we use in electronics in wealthy nations do we ever see again?) Quite a bit, I'd imagine: retrieving the gold is one of the reasons that electronics recycling exists.