6% of the World's Aluminum Supply Found Sitting in Mexican Desert

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=Ithon;51029499]that's a lot of tin foil hats[/QUOTE]

Someone do the math please

[TaintedTurnip]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;51030967]Someone do the math please[/QUOTE]

0. Because it's not tin.

[Doozle]

[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;51032945]0. Because it's not tin.[/QUOTE]

Don't be a kill joy. Tin foil hasn't been made from tin for decades, it's still known as tin foil

[chocolatedrop]

Even assuming this is some Chinese conspiracy of global dominate, are there any other comparable stockpiles of aluminum? There must be other billionaires or megacorps owning vast percentages of the rest of the aluminum supply?

[Snickerdoodle]

Looking back, I apologize for using the U.S. spelling for Aluminium in the OP

[Headhumpy]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;51030967]Someone do the math please[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://s239.photobucket.com/user/mommy2charisse/media/just plain weird/Foruminformationtool.jpg.html"]This diagram[/URL] gives the size of a piece of foil needed to make a tinfoil hat as 1x5 feet, or 5 square feet. That's 4645 cm^2. According to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil"]Wikipedia[/URL], standard thickness household tinfoil is 0.016mm thick, so the volume of aluminium needed to make one tinfoil hat is 7.432 cm^3. At a density of 2.70 g/cm^3, that's 20.07g of aluminium per hat. Source says that the stockpile contains "nearly one million metric tons", or 1 billion kg. Assuming no wastage of aluminium, this would give us almost 50 billion tinfoil hats.

That's a lot of tinfoil hats.

[Shirt.]

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51034233][URL="http://s239.photobucket.com/user/mommy2charisse/media/just plain weird/Foruminformationtool.jpg.html"]This diagram[/URL] gives the size of a piece of foil needed to make a tinfoil hat as 1x5 feet, or 5 square feet. That's 4645 cm^2. According to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil"]Wikipedia[/URL], standard thickness household tinfoil is 0.016mm thick, so the volume of aluminium needed to make one tinfoil hat is 7.432 cm^3. At a density of 2.70 g/cm^3, that's 20.07g of aluminium per hat. Source says that the stockpile contains "nearly one million metric tons", or 1 billion kg. Assuming no wastage of aluminium, this would give us almost 50 billion tinfoil hats.

That's a lot of tinfoil hats.[/QUOTE]

Thats 7 tinfoil hats for everyone!

you can be paranoid everyday of the week!

[laserpanda]

[QUOTE=sgman91;51029124]Will it make him more than the inventory cost/opportunity cost of holding onto inventory? I doubt it.

There's a reason people don't generally do this sort of thing. The goal is usually to have the smallest possible inventory while not running out.[/QUOTE]

I can't imagine rent is especially high in the middle of the Mexican desert.