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I don't know enough about the industry to know if superfund sites are a necessary thing for chip fabs. That said, these chips have to be made somewhere. Is yo
by sbov 10y ago
I don't know enough about the industry to know if superfund sites are a necessary thing for chip fabs.
That said, these chips have to be made somewhere. Is your solution to this to create superfund sites in other countries? To me, that isn't a solution. I would rather we make superfund sites here, so we have reasons to fix the problem, rather than create them elsewhere.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoOr you could pay a surtax on imports that aren't built with the environmental standards of the native country, as we are seeing with attempts for a carbon tax.
- narrator 10y agoAre they still using TCE[1] to manufacture semiconductors? That stuff is the major pollutant in silicon valley left over from all the early semiconductor manufacturing. There are a lot of really expensive homes and offices in Palo Alto that are built over sites where this stuff has leaked.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene [2] http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/05/palo-alto-stanford-can-move-homes-away-from-tce-contamination/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/05/palo-alto-stanford-can...