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		unimpressive on Aug 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-... >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 on Aug 23, 2013 [–]

> (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.

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