[asa] Ban on computers reportedly wanted.

The little children who have been told that the polar bears are dying
because they and their parents are responsible for global warming
will reportedly also be told that Algore has decided to call for a
ban on computers, videogames, etc., instead of incandescent
lightbulbs after he read what I posted below. Pass it on.

~ Janice

"..the very act of manufacturing a computer degrades the environment
by using massive amounts of resources-clean water, intensive labor in
clean rooms-and producing toxic waste in quantities that far outweigh
any potential positive effects that one computer could have on the world.

In fact, these are the resources used to make one 8-inch wafer:

4,267 cubic feet of bulk gases
3,787 gallons of waste water
27 pounds of chemicals
29 cubic feet of hazardous gases
9 pounds of hazardous waste
3,023 gallons of de-ionized water

Not only is semiconductor manufacturing the worst air polluting
industry, it also uses several million gallons of water a day."

Excerpted from "Chips Ahoy: The hidden toll of computer manufacture
and use," by John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning:

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"..Household power used by lightbulbs is actually dwarfed these days
by major appliances and high tech consumer electronics- such as wide
screen TVs, computers and video games along with internet servers,
the biggest energy hogs besides cars and trucks.

And since the new CFLs produce inferior light compared to
incandescents, we'll need more of them to read, shave, comb our hair
and brush our teeth. .....

There's even more.... CFLs contain mercury. ...up to 5 milligrams per
lightbulb. If all 4 billion incandescent sockets were filled with
CFLs we'd have 20 billion milligrams of mercury spread around every
single US household. ...20 billion milligrams is nearly 50,000 pounds.

That 50,000 pounds of mercury amongst 300 million people, if
indiscriminately thrown away, will eventually find its way to your
favorite landfill and public drinking water supply. Knock over a
table lamp and shatter a CFL in your house, and you have a toxic
waste situation on your hands right in the living room, bedroom or
dining room.

On the other hand, at least half of all mercury emissions from coal
fired power plants currently is captured by scrubbers, and clean coal
technologies promise to eliminate 2/3rds of what remains. Not so for
CFLs-- which can't operate without mercury. .....

<http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/ban_the_bulb.html>[End
excerpt from Ban the [incandescent] Bulb? April 04, 2007 ]

489 posted on 04/05/2007 2:34:18 PM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1812539/posts?page=489#489

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