Comment Re:Credibility to rumors? (Score 1) 196
LiFePO4 would be well suited to things like cordless tools and the like. iDrill?
LiFePO4 would be well suited to things like cordless tools and the like. iDrill?
There's no switching (or otherwise) power supply in a SD card though. Not much of anything other than flash and a controller.
I'd imagine more harmful to ingest/inhale uranium ore... in addition to radioactivity, uranium is also a heavy metal like lead. (in both senses of the term "heavy metal".)
However most ore is quite weak, with 1% being pretty decent... I think it's economical to mine it as low as 0.1%. A few mines in Canada are near 20%, though (which I suppose is related to Canada being the biggest producer... 1/5th the ore is end product, instead of 1/1000th!). Ore will often have lead and such in it as well (decay products), which is also toxic.
It might be different in the US, but in Canada they always had terrible stock. So if your thing didn't have a broken lamp or speaker, or a dead battery - you were SOL, as they didn't carry anything else.
There's so much different silicon now that it isn't really feasible to stock even a small portion of it in every mall anyway, so most anything you fix you'll have to order in parts for...
It would have been more reasonable when I was a kid (and they only stocked a whopping 3 transistors and zero fets then, too).
Though it requires active cables, which cost quite a bit more. So it might have a place for bleeding edge stuff, but not so much for economy.
FWIW, the Audi dealer still lists... must be at least 95% of the parts for my 80's audi, down to the nut. I don't think any american marque does that..
Of course they charge you for it, but they do carry it.
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