• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Oh come on. Really guys? We are stealing these high tech pieces of equipment and just tossing them in a body of water to fry them? Such a fucking waste. Those panels and batteries are just itching to be repurposed, or at the very least harvest the copper. No need to pollute.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      The thing about them having a lot of copper is a meme/lie trying to get druggies to tear them down for a chance at a good payout at a scrapyard.

      Panels and batteries though, absolutely. Pretty sure some people already are reusing some.

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        It won’t work. You might be able to find a junkie who will fall for it once, but they’re not going to tear across the city with a Santa-sack full of cameras.

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        7 days ago

        The boards and such can be broken down into precious metals if you’re desperate but yeah generally not worth it for the raw materials.

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          I would be shocked if it were worth it on anything short of an industrial scale. We’re talking a very small amount of material, and a lot of fiberglass and … I can’t bring myself to say junk, but “delicate components made of basically sand”.

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      I wonder how accessible the power source is and if anyone would even notice if a custom small additional camera was attached to these stupid things that was programmed to identify cop cars and share to a public tracking map.