Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

Post by iancmceachern » Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 6:55 PM UTC

iancmceachern wrote: post #127

ethanbond wrote: post #114

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I don’t think GP was asking for people on Hackernews to invent a general purpose, greener alternative to PVC. I think they were asking whether there’s an alternative that hobbyist could use for these types of projects. For example, there might be a material that’s significantly greener and a bit more expensive — enough so that a large scale project couldn’t justify the economic costs (i.e. it wouldn’t be a general pu…

I understand that. I dont think there is. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Post by elihu » Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 9:28 AM UTC

Metacelsus wrote: post #87

elihu wrote: post #56

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I don't know. I think that may have other issues with the additives to make it flexible, but that's outside my knowledge. The East Palestine train wreck recently was carrying a big load of vinyl chloride among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride Maybe other plastics are just as bad, but it seems like not making stuff out of vinyl chloride…

Vinyl chloride (the monomer) is very different chemically from polyvinyl chloride.