Within a whisker of failure

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

Bill

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

This problem is well known. That is why products for medical or military
use may continue to use solder which contains lead.

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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

Not a new problem as has been said. I understand some satellites suffered,
including some avionics boxes on the Shuttle.

By the way, I have no idea what has been done to that page you sent as a
link, but its totally unreadable as English, sounding like excerpts jumbled
together compared with most web sites.

Brian

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"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science

In message , charles
writes
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

"Ivan" wrote in message
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

This problem is well known. That is why products for medical or military
use may continue to use solder which contains lead.

Yes, we can't have people dying from medical problems or military
action. And we know that the lead will be in responsible hands, and
finally disposed of using an approved procedure.
--
Ian

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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By the way, I have no idea what has been done to that page you sent as a
link, but its totally unreadable as English, sounding like excerpts
jumbled together compared with most web sites.

Perfectly readable to me.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:16:38 +0100, charles
wrote:

Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

This problem is well known. That is why products for medical or military
use may continue to use solder which contains lead.

So it's OK for them to bugger up the environment but not us? What hypocrisy?
And what's the environmental cost of people being forced to throw away
otherwise perfectly functioning gear because of one small problem caused by
this?
It's utter bloody madness.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 01:50:10 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


"Ivan" wrote in message
...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

Bill Wright for Chief Scientific Adviser! He obviously has a much
better grasp of the issues than the likes of David King and John
Beddington. Sanity here we come...
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http://www.robinfaichney.org/

"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in message
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:16:38 +0100, charles

wrote:

Yet another example of how legislators climb onto the environmental
bandwaggon on the basis of poor science. And who pays? We do. The sooner
this environmental craze passes and we can all get back to sanity the
better.

This problem is well known. That is why products for medical or military
use may continue to use solder which contains lead.

So it's OK for them to bugger up the environment but not us? What
hypocrisy?
And what's the environmental cost of people being forced to throw away
otherwise perfectly functioning gear because of one small problem caused
by
this?
It's utter bloody madness.

Exactly Paul, but to manufacturers they see this as an absolute bonus,
government inspired premature obsolescence (so we won't hear them
complaining too loudly) in a world which may sooner than later be forced
into facing up to the fact that valuable resources can't be squandered quite
so readily as they have been in the past.

"Albert" wrote in message ...
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...

By the way, I have no idea what has been done to that page you sent as a
link, but its totally unreadable as English, sounding like excerpts
jumbled together compared with most web sites.

Perfectly readable to me.



and of course lead is already in the substrat, it's where we get it from,
ie lead mines etc.