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Lead is naturally in tons of rocks. It's in a ton of other industrial processes, and it's still the most common material for sewer mains - most are reinforced w
by GauntletWizard 3y ago
Lead is naturally in tons of rocks. It's in a ton of other industrial processes, and it's still the most common material for sewer mains - most are reinforced with resin by now, but shifts can still cause major cracks that will let lead in.
There's still a ton of real uses for lead - we'd probably be better off if our electronics were still full of it, because they'd last longer.
- eternityforest 3y agoElectronics lifespan seems to be limited by obsolescence, then battery wear, then switches, then connectors, with various random other stuff mixed in. I don't see a lot of stuff failing anymore. Consumer stuff is all pretty good. I don't know about high performance stuff, maybe gaming GPUs get hot and fatigue the solder it something, but the more common stuff seems to get replaced before it failsn