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To be fair, most products and practices in the 1950's would be considered wildly dangerous by today's standards. Hell, we were still using leaded gasoline (gaso
by microwavecamera 7y ago
To be fair, most products and practices in the 1950's would be considered wildly dangerous by today's standards. Hell, we were still using leaded gasoline (gasoline with
tetraethyllead additive) up until the 90's. Think about how dangerous lead poisoning is and now imagine that we used to add it to gasoline and every gas powered motor was spewing vaporized lead. Good times.
- beambot 7y agoThey still use that fuel in airports: avgas
- fnord77 7y agoso there's lead raining down on us from piston powered planes?
- jlj 7y agoI had no idea. FAA confirms: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=14754 https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1...
- Gibbon1 7y agoYeah it's a problem because there is no money in light aviation and a lot of liabilities. And leaded aviation gas appears as a liability, especially to refineries. There are increasing attempts to produce diesel aircraft engines. Complicated by there not being any money in light aviation.
- mhh__ 7y agoThe Windscale nuclear power plant was spewing out radiation years before it caught fire