mfunnell
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Well, I try - but I drive a clapped-out Saab 900GLE so sometimes it's difficult, even on mild hills.I also drive the speed limit
...Mike
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Well, I try - but I drive a clapped-out Saab 900GLE so sometimes it's difficult, even on mild hills.I also drive the speed limit
You don't have an electric vehicle yet?😉
Then I should not concern myself with what smoke my car belches out. It's such a small drop in the bucket compared to the smoke from everyone's car taken all together.
Is that right?
When I can buy one for $500 on eBay, like my current vehicle...
Despite the fact that I agree most authorities are dolts (I actually believe most people are dolts, present company excepted), I tend to also believe that living in a society implies adhering to the rules of that society. So finding out what the rules are and then following them is actually something I consider a good thing.
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Personally, I am one who does not believe that humans broke the planet, but I will recycle and properly dispose of my hazardous waste anyway. I also drive the speed limit and pay my taxes. How weird is that?
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I haven't asked for her thoughts on your car, but I can if you like.
A vehicle for less than $500 certainly doesn't have to be a bike. My current actual motor car, such as it is, was considered to be worth less-than-zero dollars. When the previous owner tried to sell it to a wrecker, each one he approached wanted to charge him money to take it away. I saved him money by taking it off his hands without charging him a cent.Ooh a bike rider?
You could ask why they use mercury in all those millions of eco-light bulbs, but I can’t have an occasional battery
Precisely my point. But I guess you'd never confuse a lightbulb with a lozenge.😀
A vehicle for less than $500 certainly doesn't have to be a bike.
or Dental fillings then?
When the materials are disposed of carefully and within regulations I have no moral problem using film. I take my chemistry to work for proper disposal and treatment as I'm on a septic tank. If you think it is a problem for you, in your set-up, then by all means take whatever actions you feel are necessary.
I didn't tell him to dump it down the storm drain or pour it on his cornflakes. I gave an example of dealing with photo chemistry properly (following local law and strict organizational policy) which does allow for developer to be poured down the drain. You may not like it but it is perfectly acceptable to our Chemical Control Officer who is very well versed in federal and local law and informed on the hazards of every chemical used in our lab. The opinion of someone with years of education and training around this issue seemed relevant to the discussion.
I haven't asked for her thoughts on your car, but I can if you like.
Ooh a bike rider?
I was about to say "damn!" because my Saab only gets 25. But then I realised your gallons aren't gallons. In your measures I get 28 (from an '84-ish Saab), which isn't so bad.No, it's a car. 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage. Leaks oil, to my dismay, but it seems reliable and it gets 30 mpg
I was about to say "damn!" because my Saab only gets 25. But then I realised your gallons aren't gallons. In your measures I get 28 (from an '84-ish Saab), which isn't so bad.
...Mike
I semi-regularly drive to Canberra (where my parents live; about 3.5 hours away) and there's this one hill near Berrima - I have to build up some speed on the downhill lead-up to maintain any sort of speed on the uphill part. I prepare for this, every trip, by applying fresh duct tape. Yet still I worry - how much vibration will that stuff take before it lets go......a highway with a 70 mpg speed limit. That's about as fast as the Mitsu will go without vibrating into pieces.
Anything but the fixer and it's at least possible. I can't imagine the fixer is good for anything much biological and, um, fixed in place.I remember reading an article (years ago in Photo Techniques Magazine) that actually claimed that the chemicals were GOOD for the septic system.
Many local authority guidelines are formulated by non-scientists, which is why some are so unrealistically stringent. My favourite is that silver is a poisonous heavy metal, because (a) it's heavy and (b) it's a metal: minor considerations about reactivity are not allowed into the equation.
I once did a little light research on the poisoning of enzymes by heavy metals (by which I mean I tried to poison enzymes with heavy metals) and while, for example, cadmium is pretty bad news, silver ain't. This was decades ago but all the proper reseach I have read by far more skilled scientists bears out my limited conclusion.
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Cheers,
R.