Hi Brian!

I didn't say I believed it, I said I was curious. I try to read as much
as I can about things from different perspectives, not just one...

Steve 

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Subject: Re: [TN] Solderability of Tin-Gold Intermetallic, & NTC: Prius
discussion...

Steve, do you believe all you read? This article is based largely on the
CNW Marketing Dust to Dust website, which has been largely discredited
and was funded by the oil companies. As for the nickel scare, do you
really think that the few hundred grams of nickel in the battery of a
car is the cause of all the pollution in Canada, as the author implies? 
Your kitchen sink is probably 18% nickel and will contain many times
more of the metal than any hybrid car battery. "The plant is the source
of all the nickel found in a Prius' battery and Toyota purchases 1,000
tons annually." Strange statement, because it implies that, at the time
of writing the article in 2007, the expected production figures for the
car were 300,000, so that the nickel in each battery was
1,000,000/300,000 = 3.3 kg: this seems almost an order of magnitude too
much. And the author seems to think the Prius is made in Japan. Since
the fire that destroyed the Nagoya Prius production line, they have been
made in China! And I cannot believe that the Prius costs more to make,
environmentally and economically, as a car weighing 3 times more!

This is journalistic BS.

Brian

Steve Gregory wrote:
> Mornin' All!
> 
> Both Dave and Inge sent me pictures of AuSn needles and platelets, and

> I've combined them both into three PowerPoint slides that are 
> available
> here:
> 
> http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/Au_Emb_pictures.ppt
> 
> I remember the pictures now. I still have one of Inge's on my page...
> 
> As for the Prius discussion, I've never seen so many Priuses as I did 
> when I was home in North Carolina over Christmas...it's apparent that 
> it's quite the popular car there. But I'm kind of curious if it's 
> really the wonder car that everybody thinks it is. I've read a few 
> articles that say it may not be the kind of environmentally friendly 
> car that it's being touted as. Here's one article:
> 
> http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188
> 
> Steve
> 
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