Importance of Zinc. VMS Nakoro & KorokayiuThe World will need Zinc.
We've got the Zinc. This is from an article I picked up from Research gate. Corrosion will stay one of the biggest global problems in the 21st century due to destruction of steel constructions, plants, rail tracks, tubes, vehicles and machines. As a given fact 16 tons of steel are destroyed per day caused by corrosion. The German public railway is estimated to spend about 5.5 billion (109) € until 2016 because of the calculated end of service life-time is reached within 70% of all steel and railway bridges (source: Deutsches Lackinstitut). 3.3 trillion (1012) US$ was the annual cost of corrosion worldwide in 2011 which is over 4% of the world’s GDP (source: DECHEMA). This cost includes maintenance, prevention, replacements of corroded parts and interruption of services due to maintenance.