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Time to invest in lead futures?
by xattt 3y ago
Time to invest in lead futures?
- volkadav 3y agoMaybe there'll finally be a strong economic driver for ripping out all the old lead plumbing around the world, heh. Watch how quick Flint, MI gets their stuff updated if someone can make a buck on the old pipes!
- xattt 3y agoAnecdotally, a DIY switchover from copper to PEX is also an income earner.
- Tade0 3y agoOr buy car batteries while they're still affordable. Lead is less abundant in the Earth's crust than cobalt or neodymium, or even lanthanum.
- prpl 3y agothat really doesn’t mean anything. For one, it’s easy to find and mine lead. Been doing it for millennia
- King-Aaron 3y agoI might have to go collect all the ones I've thrown in the ocean over the years
- vixen99 3y agoI presume you're joking else you probably should - as an act of propitiation for your sins. 'Toxic effects of lead exposure on bioaccumulation, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, and immune responses in fish: a review' https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30884452/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30884452/ and numerous other studies.
- red-iron-pine 3y agorising ocean temperatures will kill those fish long before lead ever does. it felt bad to type that.
- King-Aaron 3y agoI am joking, the ocean is too far away
- sajb 3y agoNow maybe we can finally get members to pitch in raking the copper and lead filled backstop at the local shooting range.. :)
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]