It's a tin-whisker problem. Also, non-lead solders have a much higher melting point than leaded solder, so a great deal more energy is being used. So, whatever greenwashing went on with this was at least two-fold in error. It wasn't worth it. I'm sure those satellites failing pissed-off a lot of people who spent countless millions in the engineering, building, and launching. My point is that not everything needs to have planned obsolescence, and everything produced should have a "best practices" build quality. In any event, there is no case of lead decoupling from tin and getting into ground water. You'd probably have to vaporize it, not just melt it. (Paging Chemical Engineers!)
But here's what happens when you can't just update your CPU or replace your GPU, or worse somebody out there is just making crap products (like taking shortcuts with cheap capacitors that take down a PSU or MOBO):
http://gizmodo.com/e-hell-on-earth-where-the-wests-electronics-go-to-die-1442576665
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Because people are finding out the hard way that when a CFL bulb breaks or explodes, it releases from 25,000 to 100,000 nanograms-per-meter (cubed) of mercury vapor directly into the air of a room, dispersed from the floor to the ceiling. LEDs? fine. CFLs? nope-nope.
Put it this way: No one has ever inhaled mercury from a broken tungsten bulb. Why not? Because there's no mercury inside of a tungsten bulb.
And is everyone clear that (Tin/Lead) solder is not Mercury? Some discussions are crossing their drumsticks.
http://www.greenpasture.org/ferment...the-forced-use-of-compact-fluorescent-lights/
Disclaimer: There's some newer and really wacky junk-science stuff in ads, etc. around this fine article, so apologies in advance. I'm not one of those "healing-magnet" dudes.
But here's what happens when you can't just update your CPU or replace your GPU, or worse somebody out there is just making crap products (like taking shortcuts with cheap capacitors that take down a PSU or MOBO):
http://gizmodo.com/e-hell-on-earth-where-the-wests-electronics-go-to-die-1442576665
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FL have been used in huge numbers for decades in office buildings, factories and the like. Why have I not heard you complaining about them ending up in landfills all this time? Society had decades to be trained to not trash FL and recycle them instead. If it didn't care then, why does it suddenly care now?
Because people are finding out the hard way that when a CFL bulb breaks or explodes, it releases from 25,000 to 100,000 nanograms-per-meter (cubed) of mercury vapor directly into the air of a room, dispersed from the floor to the ceiling. LEDs? fine. CFLs? nope-nope.
Put it this way: No one has ever inhaled mercury from a broken tungsten bulb. Why not? Because there's no mercury inside of a tungsten bulb.
And is everyone clear that (Tin/Lead) solder is not Mercury? Some discussions are crossing their drumsticks.
http://www.greenpasture.org/ferment...the-forced-use-of-compact-fluorescent-lights/
Disclaimer: There's some newer and really wacky junk-science stuff in ads, etc. around this fine article, so apologies in advance. I'm not one of those "healing-magnet" dudes.
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