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Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing... Edit: I meant that we have bare lead pipes in the ground along with water being
by hypercube33 3y ago
Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing...
Edit: I meant that we have bare lead pipes in the ground along with water being sent through them. I also think there was lead used in solder on copper pipes until the 70s or something like that. Surely these are more likely reasons for higher lead accumulations than (poorly) insulated lead wires in the ground?
Lead alloy was also used as the primary electronics solder, and of course in gas and paint in higher quantities so I really was getting the feeling these articles are drawing weird conclusions that telephone cables were the cause of the lead they are finding.
- chickenbittle 3y agoI believe plumbers used plumbum.
- no_wizard 3y agoimmediately made me think of this package I used to use when I did Python development https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- reaperducer 3y agoJust wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing... I guess you haven't read a newspaper in the last 70 years.
- selimthegrim 3y agoThey probably were too busy worrying about the lead type at the printers…
- elzbardico 3y agoUnless you are a civil engineer or an activist, probably the reason you know about lead plumbing is because journalists extensively wrote about it for decades. Yes, journalism is not perfect, sometimes they err catastrophically, but let's not discount all the good things good journalists have done and are still doing.
- madengr 3y ago[dead]