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SciFri Snack: The Low Price of Platinum

Scifri on May 01, 2012 14:23

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    Platinum is useful in electronics. The problem, it is extremely rare and at around $1500 an ounce, one of the most expensive metals on the planet. But Eric Anderson, the co-founder of Planetary Resources has a solution to platinum scarcity on earth. It involves robots, mining and asteroids.

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