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Not to worry. I'm going to ship mine to China for disassembly and recycling using their cutting-edge environmentally safe and correct technology. 
http://www.frogdesign.com/frogblog/trash-talk-asia-ed-burtynskys-images-of-china-day-13.html

Look at other useful recycling technologies in China. Head lice might need to be classified as a STD!:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://d.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/ne/afp/20071113/03/1383699288-china-recycling-used-condoms-cheap-hair-bands.jpg&imgrefurl=http://current.com/items/87273831_china_recycling_used_condoms_as_cheap_hair_bands&h=291&w=437&sz=17&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=vwdpfsitZS16-M:&tbnh=84&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchina%2Brecycling%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

And there are much worse gases than NF3 or Carbon Dioxide, especially back in the Dakotas where I'm from. See this new environmental threat at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2274995/Cow-farts-collected-in-plastic-tank-for-global-warming-study.html.

Does this mean cattle will no longer be allowed under China RoHS? And just where is this covered in the Eu's proposed REACH legislation?

Hahahahahaha!

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dharma Kemp-Bresett
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] (NTC) But Relevant

I would agree on the not wanting to watch stretched people, scenery, etc.
(you can usually switch "modes" it so it doesn't do that by the way).
However, if you are a movie buff, and prefer your movies in widescreen....
NOTHING beats watching them on a widescreen TV! No more watching a widescreen movie and having it be half the size so that it can fit on your
4:3 TV.... :-) I am very shocked to read that my LCD TV is this
(potentially) environmentally disastrous though (I will wait for more definitive info on emission rates before I worry too much). I am now wondering if this also applies to my (also widescreen) LCD flat screen computer monitor? or is this just a plasma thing and the article lumped LCD's in with plasma? As both my flatscreens are LCD I would feel a whole lot better if this was the case.....
My 2 cents,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Ritzen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:28 PM
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Agreed... There's nothing more annoying when watching the telly than having the commentator's mouth stretched into a bizarre grin... Or having a nice, mountain scene on PBS turned into low-lying hills with impossibly elongated clouds above them. I'm waiting for the complete move to HD 16:9 before I am forced to buy what I never wanted in the first place... Seriously thinking of just turning the old analog set off in February 2009 and not worrying about TV anymore. The sorry programming doesn't justify worrying about it.

Dale Ritzen, CQA
Quality Manager/ISO Management Representative Austin Manufacturing Services


-----Original Message-----
From: Ioan Tempea [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] (NTC) But Relevant

I've always wondered why we these TVs are produced anyways. Or at least for now... The 16:9 models stretch the image for 99% of the programs since they are not broadcasted in this format, so they are kinda useless these days.

Just a thought,

Ioan

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Seems very quiet today. Here's  one of those things that make us go hmmmm....
 
Flat Screen TV's Accelerate  Global Warming?
 
 
 
KTLA News 

July 4, 2008,  9:57 AM PDT

 (http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-plasmatv-dangers,0,3208971.story) IRVINE -- An Irvine scientist says  those popular flat screen television sets may be accelerating global  warming.

Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this  year have been plasma or LCD TV's, according to experts. But this boom could be coming at a huge environmental cost.

The gas, widely used in the  manufacture of flat screen TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as  carbon dioxide.

Ironically, NF3 is not covered by the Kyoto protocol as  it was only produced in tiny amounts when the treaty was signed in  1997.

Levels of this gas in the atmosphere have not been measured, but  scientists say it is a concern and are calling for it to be included in any  future emissions cutting agreement.

Professor Michael Prather from the  University of California at Irvine has highlighted the issue in an article for  the magazine New Scientist.

He says output of the gas needs to be  measured.

"One of my titles for this paper was Going Below Kyoto's Radar.  It's the kind of gas that's made in huge amounts," he said.

"Not only is  it not in the Kyoto Treaty but you don't even have to report it. That's the part  that worries me."

Prather estimates 4,000 tons of NF3 will be produced in  2008 and that number is likely to double next year.

"We don't know what's  emitted, but what they're producing every year dwarfs these giant coal-fired  power plants that are like the biggest in the world," 
he said.

"And it  dwarfs two of the Kyoto gases. So the real question we don't know is how much is  escaping and getting out."

Other scientists say without measuring the  quantity of NF3 in the atmosphere it is unclear what impact it will have on the  climate. 




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