[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu> wrote:
>> its not *JUST* solder, its EVERYTHING... "use of lead will be banned
>> totally from all equipment and subsystems offered for sale in Europe as
>> early as Jan. 1, 2006. " This includes the semiconductors aswell as the
>> solder (and of course the PCBs)
>
>Makes me wonder how they'll come up with a decent and similarly robust
>technology for car accumulators. I doubt that a fuel cell add-on kit would
>be very handy for most vehicles...
>
>Rainer

"accumulator"...  is this what Americans call a battery?  As far as I know,
there is so much easy to get at lead in these that they get recycled. 
Although there may be spillage of some kind, but this could be mitigated.

OT: Current fuel cell technology uses platinum as a catalyst.  One thing I
read a while back is that if this remains the only viable fuel cell design,
then fuel cell cars for the masses will never happen because there just
isn't enough platinum on the planet to make all those fuel cells.


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