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wrote: Hmmm. From what I read it would make more sense to outlaw coal burning power plants than to outlaw mercury button batteries! What percentage of the mercury in our environment comes from discarded button batteries? What percentage comes from coal-based power plants? Batteries are NO LONGER one of the major sources of mercury pollution- because of that infernal "government regulation". You would be surprised at how much they used to be responsible for: see e.g. http://www.mass.gov/dep/files/mercury/hgexsum.htm for a window into 1995 levels. Now that my son's administration is in charge of the EPA, forget trying to get any legitimate national figures from them. A deposit system would not have been an adequate solution, for several reasons. One of them is that mercury recyling itself results in mercury emissions into the air. Another is that while "most" people might have not thrown them in the trash, enough would have for it to have remained a serious problem. Since there are many workable replacements, the loss of mercury batteries is nothing, especially compared with what we have gained from that, and anyone who bitches about it is a whiner and a ******. By comparison, banning cadmium from photographic papers was a real loss, and though I suffer from it, even I recognize it as a real necessity. Radium made for damn good watch dials, asbestos for great brake pads and all sorts of other useful products, and beryllium is a wonder metal too. And don't forget lead plumbing and lead cutlery! Nothing can compare. Don't you miss them all. Now let us whine, amen. |
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41 wrote: wrote: Hmmm. From what I read it would make more sense to outlaw coal burning power plants than to outlaw mercury button batteries! What percentage of the mercury in our environment comes from discarded button batteries? What percentage comes from coal-based power plants? Batteries are NO LONGER one of the major sources of mercury pollution- because of that infernal "government regulation". You would be surprised at how much they used to be responsible for: see e.g. http://www.mass.gov/dep/files/mercury/hgexsum.htm for a window into 1995 levels. Hmm. I am surprised. I had no idea so many button batteries were being thrown away per year, let alone burned in incinerators. - Frank Krygowski |
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"41" wrote:
A deposit system would not have been an adequate solution, for several reasons. One of them is that mercury recyling itself results in mercury emissions into the air. Another is that while "most" people might have not thrown them in the trash, enough would have for it to have remained a serious problem. You got numbers on how bad emissions from recycling would be vs what is currently being turned loose? Since there are many workable replacements, the loss of mercury batteries is nothing, especially compared with what we have gained from that, and anyone who bitches about it is a whiner and a ******. By comparison, banning cadmium from photographic papers was a real loss, and though I suffer from it, even I recognize it as a real necessity. Yes, I really love buying air/zinc batteries that are guaranteed to be dead when I want to use them in my F1. For the majority of devices an alkaline replacement was just fine. I wish there had been an option left open for getting mercuric batteries, with a deposit of course, for the devices that didn't convert gracefully. Or the government can send me a newer F1 that doesn't have the problem The total ban mentality, no matter how it inconviences people, is a sign of arrogance and leads to a lack of support for changes that might actually have merrit. And in retrospect, camera use would have falled off anyway since most people are going digital. Radium made for damn good watch dials, asbestos for great brake pads and all sorts of other useful products, and beryllium is a wonder metal too. Beryllium is great stuff. Once had some berylium-copper tools. You just can't work on a klystron or magnetron w/o some tools made out of the stuff. Just don't breath the dust if machining it. You'll just have to pardon me if I get a bit irritated at times with the no matter what the cost save the planet attitude. We have gone from worries of global cooling to global warning in my life time. We have groups that want the USA to conserve its way out of energy dependance while supporting illegal immigration which is only going to add to the number of people that live in a country with very high energy usage per capita. Energy use = polution for the most part. I once worked for a corporation that was trying to get a npdes permit to discharge non-contact cooling water into a river. They couldn't get a permit because the water they were discharging was too dirty for the EPA. Then some bright guy tested the incoming water that the plant recieved from the city that got the water from the same river. The incomming water didn't meet EPA specs. The plant was trying to discharge water that was actually cleaner than what was in the river and was denied. BTW, the casters on my toolbox are known to cause cancer in the State of California. Lucky me, I live in Michigan. Make a great day, Wes S -- Reply to: Whiskey Echo Sierra Sierra AT Alpha Charlie Echo Golf Romeo Oscar Paul dot Charlie Charlie Lycos address is a spam trap. |
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Jim Smith wrote:
Oh, by the way, your permit story sounds like an urban legend. I don't believe it. Good. Being a bit skeptical is a good trait. I heard the story from the corporate enviromental people where I used to work. They were mostly lawyers, I'm not going to vouch for them. Wes |
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Jim Smith wrote:
Oh, by the way, your permit story sounds like an urban legend. I don't believe it. I believe it. There's a former medical manufacturing plant here in town (CR Bard), and they used Ethelene Oxide (EtO) (1) to sterilize their products. It's a hazardous substance (well, it has to kill microbes!) and they were endlessly harrassed by the Department of Environmental Management because of *mathematical* emissions - the emissions at the end of the 6" diameter vent stack were not measurable. It had to be _calculated_. All the while it's a not-so-well-kept secret that the Hospitals 'round these parts emit hundreds if not thousands of pounds of the stuff. (2) So what happened? CR Bard moved everything to NJ. *Wave to "Turbo" wherever you are* -- BMO 1. CR Bard recycled the "waste" gas by turning it into antifreeze (Ethelene Glycol) and selling it. Gas up the stack was money up the stack. 2. Rhode Island is a quirky state, where politics is incestuous and is the biggest spectator sport. |
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