[Greenbuilding] Copper tank?

[RT]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:51:49 -0400, Grace Alden <speireag at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2013/09/01, at 19:37, Topher wrote:
>
>> Scrap copper is currently around $2.50 / pound around here.  That might
>> give you a basis for pricing the tank.
>>
>> 30 gallons is a lot of thermal mass if you were to use it as a radiator;
>> it might well over heat the bathroom.
>
> 	True.  The bathroom idea is probably unworkable.  But I can think of a  
> few such applications which might work.


My guess is that a scalpel blade contains less than a bucks-worth of steel  
in terms of scrap value but in the hands of a surgeon it could save a life  
and as such, it'd be priceless.

A copper tank built to withstand pressurised boiling water is IMO worth  
far more than its scrap value.

What if that 30 gallon boiler were used as a still to make single malt  
whiskey ? 30 gallons of single malt at a conservative price of $40 per 70  
cl ? About $7,000. (To AA-Man, he'd probably say "priceless". Me ? I'm a  
tea-totaler.)

If I were selling that copper tank, I wouldn't give it away for $200.
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Rob Tom					AOD257
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