I thought this was a SPRINKLER forum. I would bet that the number of these systems will NOT impact the environment one bit. PERIOD. Even if new science discovers that this product has an impact on the environment, the impact would be a drop-in-the-bucket (maybe the ocean) compared to other industries out there. I've often wondered how big an impact Halon has had on our environment. I know it's bad, but how many systems have activated? How much Halon has actually been released into the atmosphere? I would bet it's less than a couple a coal fired power plants worth of impact.
It sounds as if you don't know this product very well. "if it has highly electronegative atoms in it" I'm no chemist, but it looks like 3M has done a good job in creating an environmentally friendly product. David Autry Plans Examiner Nebraska State Fire Marshal's Office 246 S. 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68508 402-471-9659 402-471-3118 fax www.sfm.ne.gov -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of å... .... Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sapphire how can the industry claim that a chemical with as many flourocarbons as this gem of a material contains is going to be environmentally clean? animal farm! i bet in 20 years after we can measure the effect of this gem, we will be rereading our Montreal protocol. if it has highly electronegative atoms in it, no matter how tightly bonded to the carbon, and the chemical that contains these atoms boils away and disperses into the atmosphere where solar radiation can, over time, break that bond... it doesn't take a someone as dumb as me to see we are just selling a product for money today and letting the next generation have to pay for the garbage chemicals we claimed were friendly. scot deal excelsior fire engineering He is being told it is better than FM200 for environmental reasons... _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
