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On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 18:09 -0400, alan@alanlee.org wrote: <BR>
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On September 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM planas <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote: <BR>
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I do not know if the LED's have any hazardous materials in them that would require their disposal as hazardous wastes. But I would not be surprised if they did.<BR>
Wouldn't most manufactured in the last 10 years fall under RoHS?<BR>
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Probably, but there is another issue that is ignored. The manufacturing process creates waste streams that must be handled. How nasty these are compared to fly ash disposal with coal I do not know. I have not seen anyone actually look at this.<BR>
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A similar problem exists with electric cars. Besides the problems of battery life/range, you have disposal of the batteries, manufacturing of the batteries, and the extra load on the electric grid. Each will add potential environmental issues. Whether they are worse than the problems of internal combustion engines, again I have seen anyone actually address.
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