[Greenbuilding] low flow shower heads

lee Weaver lgweaver at gmail.com
Wed May 18 13:38:48 CDT 2011


 >>Care to elaborate? Do you have a timetable in mind when you say 'soon'?

Soon as in as soon as as soon as we ensure that politics stop getting in 
the way.  All politics,  all agendas need to be set aside and it needs 
to be focused upon.  then it will be solved.  This won't be easy as the 
big Oil coal companies will fight it tooth and nail.

 >>So, what does the aluminum recycling industry make out of ground up 
soft drink cans?

Doing my part here i haven't drank soda in years.

 >>Do you imagine that the rubber that wears off the water bureau's 
truck's tires is collected, scraped off the asphalt, and somehow allowed 
to reenter the tire-making process?

You have me there.  and I see no way at this time to replace that rubber 
with a more sustainable alternative,  but I'm no expert in the field.  I 
wouldn't call me an expert an the 'Green' area of knowledge either,  
that's why i read the lists and from time to time ask questions.  like I 
did this time.

When I asked "Are there non sustainable materials used in 
purification?"  I was actually referring to the actual purification 
processing not the infrastructure that is in most cases already in 
place, and lasts for a long time.

Lee
On 5/18/2011 11:13 AM, Reuben Deumling wrote:
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>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, lee Weaver <lgweaver at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lgweaver at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     >>I am not preoccupied with costs in financial terms as much as in
>     the materials and energy that are ground up in the process. Low
>     entropy isn't something you can buy back with money.
>
>     This may be the statement that may "Shine a light"  for me.  Are
>     there non sustainable materials used in purification?
>
> yes, pretty much everything. How about the electricity to run pumps 
> for starters? The materials that are locked in every bit of 
> infrastructure: rubber, steel, aluminum, plastics, copper... take your 
> pick. It is all being mined and degraded and dispersed. Do you imagine 
> that the rubber that wears off the water bureau's truck's tires is 
> collected, scraped off the asphalt, and somehow allowed to reenter the 
> tire-making process? We don't even do a very good job of collecting 
> the worn out tires themselves. Not to mention the energy required to 
> separate the steel belting out of the crumbly rubber. You probably 
> realize that the favorite poster child of the recycling industry, the 
> aluminum soft drink can, isn't actually recycled back into aluminum 
> soft drink cans? The alloy of the lid and the alloy of the rest of the 
> can are sufficiently different that when you smash them up you get an 
> alloy that is not useful to make either the lid or the can body. So, 
> what does the aluminum recycling industry make out of ground up soft 
> drink cans? Window frames that leak heat and engine blocks that 
> disperse it.
> Pass the entropy, please. I'd like another helping.
>
>
>     I'm not worrying about the energy since i believe that we will
>     soon solve the energy issues we have,  and finally break free of
>     fossil fuel consumption.
>
> Ah, I see. Yes, well.
>
>
>
>
> Care to elaborate? Do you have a timetable in mind when you say 'soon'?
>
>
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