Re: DAm wire Keeps going up....

[Matt Ion <soundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:
>>I've never wired a dam...
>
>
> Dam is the apparently operative word behind recent price increases in copper
> wire.  More specifically, the Three Gorges Dam.  According to MSN, "World
> copper prices have risen more than 70 percent this year, supported by
> expectations of continued strong demand from China, where consumption of the
> metal is forecast to rise 14.5 percent this year. The price was about 2.5
> times of the price of aluminum, which has risen 21 percent this year."  The
> Chinese government even allowed contractors to switch from copper to
> aluminum for the TGD project.

Theft of telephone and other copper cables is on the rise in these
parts, so much so that the police are requesting scrap-metal dealers get
the names and addresses of anyone wanting to sell them cable fragments.

News item from last week: a man who was known to police was electrocuted
in an underground bunker near a power substation when he tried to cut
through a section of LIVE 114,000 volt cable... His face was burned so
badly he was initially unindentifiable.