04-25-2017, 10:14 PM
(04-25-2017, 08:39 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: <snip>
I'd prefer to buy US sourced solar cells. I don't know if Chinese stuff is even safe. Perhaps they use some toxic stuff , you know like that sulfur tainted dry wall, melamine tainted human and pet food, lead painted toys, etc.
What do you think they do, create poison electrons?
I remember looking into the toys. It turned out there were more frequent problems with lead in US made toys; they just didn't make the news as much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_telluride
Dunno about that Warren. Cadmium telluride seems all the rage on US sourced solar cells. Cadmium Chalcogenides are pretty non toxic 'cause the compounds are very stable, man.
compounds are safer. X = [O,S,Se,Te,Po,Lv]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogenide
Like, I said, Chinese factories spew lots of coal/heavy metals/organic POPs than the US does due to regulations forbidding such emissions in the US,. I remember a zinc smelter close by, that shut down near by due to environmental regulations here in the US. Smelters if, left to their own devices will emit toxic metealoids like arsenic,selenium, tellurium, bismuth, antimony, etc. So ... yeah. it not poison electrons that happen , but poison metalloid atoms, there, guy.
[N, P, As, Sb, Bi] can also be quite toxic as well. So Warren, do you know the periodic table, ? ....
I don't recall US toys having lead in them. Here's the sequence for lead, enjoy.
[C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb[ Pb = lead. Warren, learn the periodic table, for it's the true key to chemistry. US companies don't give a rat's ass about you and me. All they care about is profit is far as their eye can see.
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