As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.

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    1 year ago

    Just because PFAS is one way doesn’t mean there aren’t other things that would work.

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        1 year ago

        So for electrical fires, they use carbon dioxide to smother the fire and sodium bicarbonate to aid in putting it out, along with class c fire extinguishers. Class c are just carbon dioxide.

        For chemical fires, carbon dioxide extinguishers are also used. They can use extinguishers with bromochlorodifluoromethane, aka Halon 1211, (which I guess could be a pfas chemical, but I don’t find anything either way).

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t it just be better to cure cancer? Why don’t the scientists just do that?