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Time to invest in lead futures?


Maybe there'll finally be a strong economic driver for ripping out all the old lead plumbing around the world, heh. Watch how quick Flint, MI gets their stuff updated if someone can make a buck on the old pipes!


Anecdotally, a DIY switchover from copper to PEX is also an income earner.


Or buy car batteries while they're still affordable.

Lead is less abundant in the Earth's crust than cobalt or neodymium, or even lanthanum.


I might have to go collect all the ones I've thrown in the ocean over the years


I presume you're joking else you probably should - as an act of propitiation for your sins.

'Toxic effects of lead exposure on bioaccumulation, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, and immune responses in fish: a review' https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30884452/ and numerous other studies.


rising ocean temperatures will kill those fish long before lead ever does.

it felt bad to type that.


I am joking, the ocean is too far away


Now maybe we can finally get members to pitch in raking the copper and lead filled backstop at the local shooting range.. :)


that really doesn’t mean anything. For one, it’s easy to find and mine lead. Been doing it for millennia




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