Well, gone are the days where you just go off willy, nilly and make a samurai costume out of hole-ridden, lead containers for nuclear waste.
That’s right, the dems in the US Senate and House are busy correcting your mis-use of material for electronic component design by drafting up legislation that will provide grants via the EPA. The grants are for research into electronic device design and recycling to help the environment (and environmentalists) not choke on the 1.8 million tons we toss each year. What does this mean for you?
House Bill 1580 and Senate Bill 1397 will no doubt be signed. All they do right now is allow the EPA to issue grants for R&D, so it’s not going to directly affect your ideas for a new CO2 emitting alarm clock design that uses plastics with a 1000 year half-life.
Consider your Product Lifecycle
The bills are wordy, but a couple of the more design/engineering related pieces to take away these. The grants will be used for:
[identifying] regulatory or statutory barriers that may prevent the adoption or implementation of best management practices or technological innovations that may arise from the research and training programs established in this Act.
[creating] activities that enhance the ability of an institution to broaden the engineering or professional continuing education curriculum to include environmental engineering design principles and consideration of product lifecycles related to electronic devices and increasing the recyclability of such devices.
Along with that, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be tasked to create an environmentally friendly material database for electronic components. What fun.
The concept of this is good; reduce waste going into landfills. It also cuts down on what alien robots can use for nourishment. However, the actuality of people caring that something is made from recyclable material or throwing it in a green bucket the city provides for $5/month is different. But don’t worry, the research is also going to study those factors that make you not care to create recycling programs you do care about. Environmentally-friendly high fives for everyone.
So, what I’m wondering, if it comes down to you having to use a a list of allowed materials from NIST, does product design need this level of regulation by the government or should people be able to use whatever materials are available?
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I'm all for KNOWING about what materials are more this and that in regards to environmental impact, having a database, whatever. What I'm NOT for is being TOLD/FORCED to use some material that may not be best… FOR THE PRODUCT.
All of this stuff is just getting out of hand. Take Toyota for instance and the Tacoma issue regarding high idling/shifting issues. Response from Toyota is basically that it's designed that way… not for any performance reasons, but because of the stupid EPA/government regulations. TOTAL Bacon Sandwich!
Actual response from Toyota:
By way of background, each year the government slightly tightens emissions standards so that vehicles emit less pollution.
Modern vehicles have a very sophisticated emissions system that only works when hot or warm. If the vehicle is cold, more emissions are produced.
The only way to heat the emissions components quickly up so they work properly is to run the engine faster when it is cold.
The government wants engines and emissions systems to warm up as soon as possible so the emissions control systems work efficiently as soon as possible after a cold start.
Two things the you will notice is the the engine will run fast when cold, (engine RPM higher) and shifting will be reduced, either to lock out overdrive, or keep the shifts from happening as normal until the emissions components are properly warmed.
Reducing shifts make sense, because when you shift, it reduces the engine speed, and prevents the warming process from happening as quickly.
By forcing the engine to stay in a lower gear longer, the engine turns faster and warms up more quickly than if it is allowed to shift normally as it does when it is warmed up.
Full text here: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacoma...
I'm with you Bruce. I think guidelines would be better and there's certainly room to incentivize the use of certain materials rather than limiting or removing their use. I'd hope, if anything comes of this, that any restriction would push innovation around the regs for new materials that destroy any need for this type of legislation.
I'm with you Bruce. I think guidelines would be better and there's certainly room to incentivize the use of certain materials rather than limiting or removing their use. I'd hope, if anything comes of this, that any restriction would push innovation around the regs for new materials that destroy any need for this type of legislation.
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