[TheForge] electrolysis

[woolley]

On 5/20/2011 8:43 AM, Paul Sperbeck wrote:
> What you are doing is shifting the environmental impact from the
> atmosphere to the ground water...
> I am the last one to be considered an environmental nut case, but the
> effects of galvanizing poisoning  are no less real even though you do
> them 'outdoors' and have no impact on yourself.



Let me amend that. Burning it off outdoors is relatively safe if you 
wear a decent respirator, keep your head out of the smoke, resist doing 
it as  a demonstration for, let's say, a group of 2nd graders, or making 
sure you are not doing enough of it to send a cloud of death through 
your neighborhood.