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Undoubtedly, these shoddy builders demanded top dollar for those houses, even though they were made of Chinese junk and built by illegal aliens. The builders probably have or will declare bankruptcy, and the homeowners are left with rotten houses for which they are still making high house payments. No wonder people are walking away from their mortgages.
But.. but it’s for free trade! What’s a few bad odors and fires? It’s for free trade! You protectionists!
Sheetrock is heavy. They ship it from China?
Found this online thru Google from onemine.org:
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Summary / Abstract To reduce their sulfur emissions, many coal-fired electric power plants use wet flue-gas scrubbers. These scrubbers convert sulfur oxides into solid sulfate and sulfite sludge, which must then be disposed of. Currently, the major markets for scrubber sludge are for manufacture of gypsum products, such as wallboard and plaster, and for cement. However, the quality of the raw sludge is often not high enough or consistent enough to satisfy manufacturers, and so the material is difficult to sell. Other markets, such as paper manufacture and plastics fillers, have even more stringent quality requirements and will not accept raw sludge at all. In the work described in this paper, several reagents have been examined to determine their ability to selectively improve the flotation of the unreacted limestone contaminant away from the desirable products (calcium sulfite and gypsum). The most success has been achieved using a cationic collector, which shows a higher selectivity between calcium sulfite and calcium carbonate than do the anionic collectors that were studied.]
I wonder if this partly explanatory?
That settles it! I'm completely eliminating Chinese drywall from my diet as of right now.
From now on, my bill of fare will contain only American-grown gypsum products!
Regards,
Why we allow anything to be imported from the country is beyond me.
The Chinese drywall contains sludge from sulfur removal during the burning of dirty fossile fuels. The sulfur compounds smell bad and will corrode electrical contacts. This could cause fires if these wall receptacles overheat from the corrosion.
We demand Obama-money to fix this problem.
I don’t know, mine smells pretty good. Kind of a combination of General Tso’s chicken and fried rice.