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If it were paper money how much would that weigh in hundred dollar bills, how many trees would it equate to.
wolram said:If it were paper money how much would that weigh in hundred dollar bills, how many trees would it equate to.
With paper money, the materials are as important as the manufacturing process in producing the final product. The paper, also known as the substrate, is a special blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen to give it the proper feel.
turbo-1 said:A US bill weighs about a gram so $1,000,000,000,000 in $100 notes would weigh 10,000,000,000 grams or 10,000,000 Kg. Hmm... 10 million kilos is a lot of trees.
For the record, though, US currency is printed on rag-stock, not paper and long-cotton fiber fabric is the preferred feed-stock. Think Fruit of the Loom undies and bleached denim waste from clothing manufacture. It appears that someone has been reading about the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF...
BTW, please ask your queen not to be so grabby as to put her arm around our First Lady. We have protocols to observe, you know. :tongue:
zoobyshoe said:
wolram said:True the g20 set my mind agog, and made me wonder how long the dollar or pound or yen would be worth more than the raw material, i once had ten grand in twenty notes in my grubby paws and thought it was a kings Ransom.
Hello Pengwuino, nice to see you back, i would share to a good a good cause but not a Mr Burns.Pengwuino said:I'd gladly take it off your hands if you don't feel its worth having :)
signerror said:You may enjoy this:
http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/0/C/I/gold09.jpg
http://www.newyorkfed.org/education/addpub/goldvaul.pdf
I hear Timothy Geithner used to sleep in the vault.
wolram said:but i would rather sleep under a tree than in that sterile environment.
As was i, i am never serious in these matters, as long as i can keep warm and fed i care not.signerror said:I was joking - just in case. :uhh: (Timothy Geithner is the U.S. Treasury Secretary, until recently director of the NY Federal Reserve, where the gold is.)
[/URL]signerror said:http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/0/C/I/gold09.jpg
I believe some platinum (and perhaps silver) is similarly treated. I think the point is to possesses it.jimmysnyder said:Can you think of any other metal that is molded into ingots and stored away never to be used for anything whatever?
jimmysnyder said:Can you think of any other metal that is molded into ingots and stored away never to be used for anything whatever?
wolram said:So it should be called papyrus money, cotton money?
a felted sheet of usually vegetable fibers laid down on a fine screen from a water suspension (2): a similar sheet of other material (as plastic
To what end? For an individual, there may be some hope that eventually you can sell it to an even bigger idiot. But from society's point of view, what is the purpose of mining, smelting, molding and storing these dead weights? They're like black holes. So much goes into them and nothing comes out.Astronuc said:I think the point is to possesses it.
A bird in the hand, . . . .jimmysnyder said:To what end? For an individual, there may be some hope that eventually you can sell it to an even bigger idiot. But from society's point of view, what is the purpose of mining, smelting, molding and storing these dead weights? They're like black holes. So much goes into them and nothing comes out.
Now you're getting beyond me. I limit my comments to the metal, not the money that people are willing to part with to own the useless stuff. I wish I could afford that closet full of gold. I wouldn't buy it, I just wish I could afford it.Astronuc said:A bird in the hand, . . . .
Actually, I find it quite silly. I personally think gold, diamonds and other bits of stuff are way over-valued. But then that's me.
One problem I see with accumulating great wealth is the fear of losing it. I don't see that wealthy people are proportionately happier. Rather, they seem disproportionately unhappy or ill at ease.
I agree. I started faceting gem-stones as a hobby, and only sold enough to the jewelry stores so that I could afford to continue to buy foreign rough. Actually, the most profitable stones that I cut and sold were Maine tourmalines that I mined in western Maine tailing dumps. They are in such demand as the Maine state stone that I could charge more for them than for many other nice stones. Those in the know can tell the difference between the soft pinks and subtle blue-greens originating from Newry and other premiere Maine sites. When I first offered to sell stones to a prominent local jeweler, I challenged the owner for featuring foreign stones in his displays, and he asked what I meant. I invited him out to the showcase and said "Afghanistan, Brazil, Brazil..." etc and pointed out the very few quality tourmalines that might actually have originated from mines on Plumbago or Mt. Mica. He invited me back to his office, examined my stones and bought every single tourmaline at my asking price. After that, when I needed to drum up a bit of cash to buy rough Tsavorite, Tanzanite, Sapphire, etc to build my stocks, I would cut up a suite of tourmalines. He never let me out of the store with a Maine tourmaline in my case.Astronuc said:A bird in the hand, . . . .
Actually, I find it quite silly. I personally think gold, diamonds and other bits of stuff are way over-valued. But then that's me.
One problem I see with accumulating great wealth is the fear of losing it. I don't see that wealthy people are proportionately happier. Rather, they seem disproportionately unhappy or ill at ease.
I you have no plans for the other $999,999,999,999,500 I volunteer to find some ways to "invest" it.NBAJam100 said:Ah this is an easy one! Two chicks at one time of course!
...Oh wait, the question wasn't, what you would do if you had 1 trillion dollars...?
my bad...
zoobyshoe said:
Moonbear said:Okay, time for a stupid question. What is linen if it's not cotton? I always thought linen was a particular weave of cotton fabric, but your source is distinguishing between cotton and linen, so linen must be something other than cotton?
A trillion dollars would weigh approximately 2,204,622,621 pounds or 1,000,000,000,000 kilograms. This is equivalent to the weight of about 100,000 elephants or 1,000 blue whales.
Assuming US dollar bills, which weigh about 1 gram each, a trillion dollars would require 1,000,000,000,000 grams of paper. This is equivalent to about 1,000,000 metric tons of paper. According to the US Forest Service, one tree can produce about 8,333 sheets of paper, so about 120,000 trees would be needed to print a trillion dollars.
A stack of one trillion dollar bills would reach a height of about 67,866 miles. This is more than enough to reach the moon and back, which is approximately 477,800 miles away.
If you were to count one dollar per second, it would take you 31,709 years to count to one trillion. This is longer than recorded human history, which dates back to about 5,000 years.
A trillion dollars is an incredibly large amount of money. To put it into perspective, if you were to spend one million dollars every day, it would take you almost 3,000 years to spend one trillion dollars. It is also more than the GDP of many countries, including Australia, Spain, and Canada.