A shift in China to less toxic coatings for containers increases shipping costs

Both LA and Beijing have similar topological bowl and inversion problems. Tear down the western and northern hills in Beijing, and the air quality would also be greatly improved.

as in, it was propaganda act by politicians who used ignorance of what it stood for so you would think they were doing something about it when they were doing absolutely nothing. it had no power of enforcement because they could not even come to an agreement of who would be allowed to enforce it. when you let the fox set the rules the chickens outcome does not change.

it was worse than no treaty. with no treaty people can be brought back to the table and iron out one that has limits that apply equally to all nations with an agreed to enforcement. (per capita limits are the means some countries used to skirt any impact they have on the world)

For instance, on the renewable energy angle, according to the American Wind Energy Organization, five states now regularly generate 20%+ of their energy from wind. (http://www.awea.org/MediaCenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber...) That number would've been unthinkable 10 years ago.

(Note that the windy states tend to be Republican voting rural mid-west ones. That doesn't mean that Trump isn't going to stop mocking wind energy (as he just recently did). Rather, it does mean there is bipartisan support in these states for wind energy, and that Trump's negative comments on wind in Iowa didn't go down very well with Iowans and Iowa politicians from both sides of the aisle -- https://apnews.com/a2b500b82d5a44eeb9759ca31d0b4a33)

Having a national leader that seems hostile to anything environmental certainly doesn't help matters, but it's not all doom and gloom.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi...

No, it's 45% growth in 11 years. It's 4 percentage points, but that is something different.

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Galvanization was popular for a brief time while the industry was still trying to find replacements for lead in paint that didn't have crap performance.

Cold galvanization is expensive and involves nasty chemicals. Hot galvanization is cheaper but not as cheap as paint and involves equally nasty chemicals and molten metals.

Basically paint is cheap and good enough.

Either you increase the number of 'machines' (lines in this case) or you increase your drying area foot print to compensate.

Once you do the latter you can produce at the same rate assuming all products produced are identical) since you the ones coming out the dry end do so at the same speed as the input end.

Edit: This does assume production demand is constant, longer pipelines make responding to demand more difficult.

* Water based paintings dry much faster than oil based paintings

* The durability is pretty much the same

* The scratch resistance of oil based paintings, once fully dried, is light years better than that of water based paintings.

In some aspects the green movement has brought us water based colors where you could water your home plants with but are inadequate for some (read: wide) range of application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262