Greenpeace vs. HP
Greenpeace continues to take unusual steps to push electronics companies to produce halogen-free products. On Tuesday July 28th, Greenpeace acti...
Tim Jensen's Blog
Halogen-Free: For the Environment or for Money?
The humerous Dilbert cartoon reiterates an important fact about companies “going green.” While there are probably individual e...
Greenpeace Critical of Apple's Environmental Policy
In a follow-up to my previous posting, Greenpeace’s rationale for giving Apple marginal rankings on BFR and PVC elimination seem to be somewhat ...
Updated Greenpeace Greener Guide
Greenpeace has just updated their “Guide to Greener Electronics.“ There are a couple of interesting tibdits that I took from their r...
Mentos, Diet Coke, and Mixed Alloy Voiding
Most of you have probably seen videos of countless Mentos/Diet Coke experiments all over the internet. If you are one of the few who have not, t...
Big Bucks, Big Bucks, No Whammies!!!
If you are like me, when you hear the term “whammy” you think back to the 80’s game show called Press Your Luck. The electroni...
Oxidation Barrier: The Secret to HF Solder Paste Success
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone but I have a secret. The activators used in halogen-free solder pastes aren’t as effective as their h...
Water Wash Solder Pastes and Halogen-Free
The question often arises as to whether or not a water wash solder paste should be halogen-free. Since halogen-free is fundimentally an environm...
Examine the Oxygen Bomb Test Report Carefully!
Indium Corporation is a big proponant of using the EN14582 oxygen bomb test method for halogen determination. However, we have seen misleading r...
Why are Dioxins Bad?
One of the common reasons for halogen elimination in electronics is based around the possibility that halogens can form dioxins when that halogenated ...
Saving the world one high definition device at a time
First, I would like to give some key HD advice: When I bought my DLP TV two years ago, I didn’t think that I would need more than......
Dioxin Scare Could Speed Halogen-Free Movement
In a CNN article today, it is reported that Ireland found “alarmingly high levels of dioxins” in their pork. Dioxins are a known carcinoge...