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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: level42 on May 02, 2011, 10:42:50 PM

Title: Bye-bye, CRT's.....
Post by: level42 on May 02, 2011, 10:42:50 PM

Kinda sad....
http://youtu.be/f8VfcmKDLiw





The most interesting part is where they cut open the CRT. You will see the mask and the phosphor layer that they vaccuum out of them....

Looks like an expensive process...

Title: Re: Bye-bye, CRT's.....
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on May 03, 2011, 07:28:12 AM

Reminds me the episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike rowe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHrB2Xz9q9k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHrB2Xz9q9k)

Title: Re: Bye-bye, CRT's.....
Post by: Blanka on May 03, 2011, 06:05:09 PM

Quote from: Level42 on May 02, 2011, 10:42:50 PM

Looks like an expensive process...

But waste is money nowadays. What is in there?
1 kilo of copper?
some grams of wolfram?
some grams of gold?

Title: Re: Bye-bye, CRT's.....
Post by: polaris on May 03, 2011, 07:21:09 PM

Quote from: Blanka on May 03, 2011, 06:05:09 PM

Quote from: Level42 on May 02, 2011, 10:42:50 PM

Looks like an expensive process...

But waste is money nowadays. What is in there?
1 kilo of copper?
some grams of wolfram?
some grams of gold?

indeed, the best place to mine for gold is in a pile of mobile phones 150g per ton, and the technology is developed for harvesting platinum from the roads because it is such a good source, pretty nuts