2) It's a very rare [1] and expensive material, but has lots of awesome properties. There is only a little boron on earth and 63% of that is in Turkey, many have died fighting against outselling it there, but politicians sealed the international deals anyway, that's a widely ignore fact.
It is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust.
Somebody should invest a lot of money and time into finding synthetic Boron, because I really believe into this technology. Without synthetic Boron, it's a waste of very rare resources that we have on our earth crust.
Side note: Interestingly there was even a "reference" to Boron known as Boronite in Star Trek that could be synthesized into one Omega Molecule that looked like a Fullerene [2]. The Omega molecule was known to be the most powerful substance known to exist.
It is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust.
Somebody should invest a lot of money and time into finding synthetic Boron, because I really believe into this technology. Without synthetic Boron, it's a waste of very rare resources that we have on our earth crust.
Side note: Interestingly there was even a "reference" to Boron known as Boronite in Star Trek that could be synthesized into one Omega Molecule that looked like a Fullerene [2]. The Omega molecule was known to be the most powerful substance known to exist.
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene