From: dietz@dls.net   
      
   Cray74@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Paul F. Dietz wrote:   
   >   
   >>How idiotic.   
   >   
   >   
   > Do you have a solution that makes titanium refining no longer an   
   > insurmountable obstacle to producing large amounts of titanium, or were   
   > you just being glib?   
      
   I'm commenting on your argument.  The problem isn't a shortage   
   of refining capacity.  The problem is that titanium refining is   
   difficult, which makes the metal expensive, which makes the demand   
   small.   
      
   A lack of capacity is an *effect*, not a *cause*, in other words.   
      
   If titanium had been all that desirable for the shuttle, more   
   capacity would have been added here.  The cost of doing so would   
   have been a small fraction of the cost of the shuttle development.   
   The metal didn't offer sufficient advantages for large scale use   
   in the orbiter, so that didn't happen.   
      
   	Paul   
      
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