Bankruptcy of CRT Refiner - Page 2

Originally Posted by newattitude

I'm no expert on this stuff but it makes sense, I mean, what else can you do with the leaded glass of that volume?

Are we going to have to bury it in the mountains along side nuclear waste now lol.

I was kinda thinking along similar lines the morning. It's leaded glass and the reason it was leaded was to dampen down the emissions from the gun in the back of the tube. They used to say that you shouldn't sit too close to a tv back in the day.

There are a lot of situations that use lead or leaded glass to block harmful radiation. I built an x-ray room for a hospital once that was completely lead lined. (The sheetrock and doors were heavy as hell.) Leaded glass could be used instead of sheets of lead metal.

If you had tons & tons of the stuff the best (and simplest) use would probably be in making concrete for underground fallout shelters and nuclear waste storage facilities. Instead of using sand & stone in the concrete mix you could use different size pieces of leaded glass.

Just a random thought over the morning's first cup of coffee.

I get tax breaks by purchasing Energy Star electronics and so on...there are also breaks for the purchase of LED bulbs... My store room, garage, workspace all are led lit right now. Those spaces are the only places I go with any frequency besides my kitchen which is still cfl. It should be noted you can buy LED lights with six and sometimes 8 year warranties against burnout. Pay attention to that, I had a defective one and it sucks to eat 32 bucks at a time...until the package showed a number to call. Called it, spoke to someone after punching some numbers, gave them a copy of my receipt that I just emailed a picture of...and my new bulb arrived a few days later no problem.

I should also say the mercury released in a broken CFL amounts to eating 100 fish from the fox river...and up here they tell us 3 a month is the max, really the amount is measured in tenths of a milligram. That's .000x Grams.

I'm still waiting for a company to pop up who's business model is to apply for subsidies then systematically drop the CTRs off at a variety of Goodwill stores.

Seen that already...ran the guy out of business...although he was dumping in Lake Winnebago.