Werner

Bravo and three cheers!

Best regards

Brian

Werner Engelmaier wrote:

> Dear Kazuo Ozawa,
> You write:
> >Environmental protection has been common expectation in many countries in
> >these years. Investors also want campanies to realize the products which
> will have
> >no negative effect for the earth. Evaluation of the comapnies will be
> affected by
> >their concept and output for Environment. Many companies think that they
> should
> >realize such vision and concept for environmetal protection within
> reasonable cost >for many purpose, one is very ideal, the other is very
> commercially. And for these
> >purpose, we who are dealt with technologies should be requested to make
> possible >such concept.
>
> I do not have any argument with the above statement, but before you start
> such an endeavor, you should be reasonably sure that you what you are doing
> is technically sound and does not more harm than good. So far, the evidence
> suggests that any environmental threat by lead in electronics is pretty much
> political hysteria, rather than supportable by technical facts. Further, the
> current evidence also suggests that environmentally speaking we may be doing
> more harm than good with changing to lead-free solders, because of worse
> contamination, increased energy consumption, and increased loads on
> landfills. This is not the apparent emergency we had with the holes in the
> ozone, nor do we have the reasonable alternatives that where available for
> CFCs--so we do not have to blindly jump on controversial evidence.
> >Even WEEE legislation dead line is postponed, if we can realize lead free
> products in
> >reasonable cost, some manufacturers will supply lead free products before
> dead line?
>
> Well, this sounds like a PR ploy rather than really caring about the
> environment, does it not? Playing on the hysterical misinformation dished out
> to the public by self-serving politicians and the sensational media.
> Werner Engelmaier
>
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