rickcr42
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Post by rickcr42 on Apr 28, 2006 20:37:07 GMT
Gotta love this opening statement to the page linked below : "If it weren't for its tendency to grow whiskers, tin would be the perfect solder and finish metal." www.reed-electronics.com/semiconductor/article/CA6319091?pubdate=4%2F1%2F2006&industryid=3026&nid=2012Well shit ! WTF is all the hubbub about then ?Problem solved and it only took a month or two Seems to me a shitload of trying to reinvent the wheel while disregarding all the wheels that went before. Toss fifty years of steady advances in electronics to the scrap heap then in a few mere weeks tout the "looky how smart I am 'cause I done this" as the final solution
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 29, 2006 10:06:18 GMT
That's like saying if butter didn't melt it would be the perfect material to make car tyres with. what a load of absolute bollox! Thgese guys have got it way wrong with this lead free directive (or way right if you're a huge manufacturer) and the "consumer" will be the one who ends up paying for this in more ways than one... ,
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Post by thegreatroberto on Apr 29, 2006 16:46:55 GMT
And if The Queen had a cock,she'd be The King !
Actually can anyone thing of anything that is "environmentally friendly" that is better than the item it replaced ?
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Post by rickcr42 on Apr 29, 2006 17:34:43 GMT
good question. there was a time when all man made goods used natural materials due to that being the only raw materials available and as time marches on there is always a man made "improvement" that turns out to be even more dangerous being an "un" natural thing Example: 1-recent tests in the U.S. have concluded 80% of the population has teflon in their DNA because of all the teflon coated cooking material (pots,pans,etc.).Cast iron frying pans and aluminum pots with copper bottoms do not have this but because people are too fkn lazy to wash a pot or learn how to cook hence not BURN the the damn things means they will deal with teflon in their system rather than give up the convenience. 2-plastics have replaced metal in many areas of consumer goods.Plastic does not degrade over time and will be around in trash heaps 'til the end of time while metal goes back to the earth and will eventually degrade.Fake "chrome" on plastic rather than real metal and a joke on us all 3-Rubber goods are anything but.REAL rubber comes from a rubber tree as sap and will eventually go back into the earth.Man made "rubber" will not.Even a baby diapers will be with us forever no matter what the "ad copy" say because once in a land fill they will get no air and thus not degrade for the next millenium 4-Cotton clothing replaced by man made materials based on petroleum i.e polypropylene pile for cold weather gear.Again will not degrade over time but sit there until doomsday taking up space 5-I work in the construction trades and have watched natural wood products be replaced one by one by man made plastic substitutes.The most recent is decking/stair material/privacy fence and I have to wonder what will happen when the UV from the sun breaks down the injected colors and the homeowner can not paint the deck as they can a wood deck if these "better" materials will be ripped up,thrown away (last forever also) and replaced with wood which is not only paintable and repairable but biodegradeable. The list goes on and on how modern materials that will never ever break down and go back to the earttyh have replaced goods that willl yet we have a fkn panic over a material,lead,that COMES FROM THE EARTH AND WILL GO BACK TO THE EARTH as if it was some alien substance. The fact that it is only the electronics industry that is targeted for this abuse while every single other part is a man made non biodegradeable material makes me wonder just what the fk they are thinking and why the selective outrage ! I guess that don't answer the question but still a good point methinks
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Post by rickcr42 on Apr 29, 2006 21:56:53 GMT
just to rub it in a bit more 1-plastic is made from petroleum (oil) and this is not a renewable resource due to the time it takes for organic material to become and oild deposit.We are pumping what is left of the dinosaurs from the ground and running our cars,our industryt and making plastic from the remains.when it is gone it will be gone for a millenia (not that the human race will last that long being idiots and getting dumber by the week) 2-Metal is also a finte resource but there is a major difference.With oil products once used that is it.It is used up,with metal products you can use,re-use and re-use again as long as there is a need.Once actually tossed to the scrap heap it will eventually break down and disperse back into the soil.this is the main bitch that has brought about RoHs but if they were not such retards they would see two way around this and both better than what we now have which will mean MORE leaching into the soil and not less : A-enforce recycling of all metals PLUS make using recylcables preferable (tax break or other incentive) to "here forever" mass production materials or B-make the dumping of heavy metals in a single uninhabited location.Maybe even a former mine.From the earth/mine back to the earth/mine. 3-Quit being so damn tight assed about cutting down trees and using "wood replacements" over natural wood as is a fully natural event.Trees are MEANT to go away so there can be new growth and when you do not harvest a forest yet are a dumb ass enough to build homes or bussinesses there be ready to be burned out at some point. A tree grows then it dies and goes back into the planet as fertilizer.for the teree huggers it is what we with a brain call a "renewable resource". That means you CAN"T cut down all the trees ! Impossible event ! Cut down a tree and you have what ? AN OPENING WHERE SUN NOW HITS THE GROUND which makes the sapling that formerly had no shot at growing to maturity now have a fighting shot (no sun no grow ) all those seedlings will now become actual damn trees ! what a fkn concept.Nature at work ;D you throw a rock in the garbage and it is just another rock.Throw wood into the trash and it disintegrates.cotton same thing.Hemp,again the same but all these plastics using a non renewable resource will be with us until the end of time and even if the human race goes to extinct all those cell phones will still be sitting there in heaps as a monument to just how fkn stupid we are
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