Duh doy, I get it now. Sherif also pointed out my error, as I mentioned to him I've seen open pit silver mines and there is a heck of a lot of fossil fuel being consumed to pull that ore out of the ground. The earth movers resemble a two story building on wheels. And most of what they haul away is overburden. Also most of our electricity here in the Silver State comes from coal fired plants so refining the ore can't be cheap in terms of energy. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "rgrant" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [TN] On lead and stuff > Hi Dan, > > Sherif is talking about the power consumption required to assemble a board > using lead-free. However, I don't think a 11.5% increase by electronic > manufactures would be a noticeable blip to the power company's meter. And I > don't think it would even be a noticeable blip to the manufactures cost of > manufacturing either. (Although the environmental "benefit" of lead-free is > even less of a blip on any radar). > > Ryan Grant > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan R. Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:19 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [TN] On lead and stuff > > > Sherif, > I can't say that has been noticeable but we are building a relatively low > power consumption product any way. 11% would relate to 1 or 2 milliamps in > our typical product, not a major concern to us or our customers. > Dan > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 > ext.5315 > ----------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------