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| Sure it will and there is another thread here from about six months ago where I post some content as to why.I receive a bazillion industry trade jurnals every week and the real story comes from the techs who do the work and they are mostly in agreement on this |
I posted in that thread too; I ran out of time to do home experiments, but have been reading journals, and speaking to people at the Joining division at uni
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| because they must or cease operations and they are just doing what is smart-switching now instead of the last minute.You would not beleive the crap propaganda I get from the semiconductor manufacturers and electronics suppliers telling me why this is a good thing and how they are compliant while the engineers are moaning that it is all a pack of lies. |
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they have been trying to cure cancer for far longer.Have been trying to make fusion power a reality since the '50s.Have been trying to send humans to the stars for many years.
time alone does not make the impossible possible. |
This is merely a case of metallurgy and adaptation, there is no fundamental problem in using lead-free solders. There are no real theoretical gaps in our knowledge of this field that require any great leaps of imagination.
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| Seems to me folks were a whole lot smarter before they realised how stupid they should be because of all the damage done to their brains by lead.I don't know if this is scam or "truethful" science based but if anything like the asbestos "scam" then I for one am suspicious. |
Asbestos was more a case of government ignorance. There are different kinds of asbestos, but only one "colour" is carcinogenic, as it contains sharp needles that don't break down (asbestos amphilobes). Chrysotile exists as more of a fluffy material and is non-toxic, although levels of exposure are still tightly restricted
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| Lead is a natural element and comes from the earth.It is not manufactured from thin air or invented so it seems to me there should be a way to just put it back into the earth where it came from ! |
Well, yes. That seems pretty obvious. But, why pull it out of ore in the first place when it is toxic to humans, and a finite resource. Granted, copper and tin are also hard to extract, more expensive, and finite. See later on sustainability.
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| Landfills ? Those are a thing of the past around here and all garbage is now trucked out to some nameless area for dumping where no one is looking.Why ? Because we have become a disposable society that foxes nothing and treasures nothing.If it breaks gun it and buy new.Ever think about all the packaging you toss into the trash in an average week ? |
What you have described IS a landfill! Of course I think about what happens when rubbish is thrown out, we live next to an old quarry that was going to be turned into a landfill, and have delivered down to one as well... The fact that we have become a throw away society is not a good thing, and something that is not sustainable. A few simple choices can drastically reduce the amount of rubbish you produce in a given time. For example, we try to get unbleached paper bags from shops where possible, then compost them for use on the garden
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| Lead is not the problem.Building crap that breaks is and this another weak link in the reliability chain but a solid link in the "if it breaks i can sell more stuff" chain.I only wonder where it will all go in a couple of years ! |
Lead IS the problem, but not the one you describe there. How many companies do you know still run 386 PCs, simply because they still work? Presently, the lifespan is not dictated by the reliability of the components, more the whims of the consumer. I hope this situation changes. For example, many people doing stats in one of the departments uses a 200MHz laptop with 64MB RAM for ALL their stats use, and is still perfectly up to the task. Computers (for everyday office use) reached their peak at around that speed. Anything after and the user is the limiting case.
