Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel

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Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel
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Cool

Why tho

Personally, id choose them over plastic ones if not just to save plastic

doesn't metal manufacturing use quite a lot more energy?

But it has the benefit of not breaking down into micro plastics and getting into every part of everyone.

True enough. Though I wonder, as a thought experiment, what would be the actual better option in the long run. Some type of resin maybe?

I guess using renewables for the energy needs of metal production would work too

Good thing heavy metal toxicity isn't a problem.

Steel or stainless ain't gonna give you metal poisoning

Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium.

Better toss all your cookware then

I'll toss it when I toss my plastic tupperware. The problem is re-usability, not what it's made out of. SD card gets tossed out, doesn't matter what it is made out of, it's going to pollute.

What a downvote Nancy.

probably, but then i can ingest less micro plastics. Which is probably good.

But what about ingesting micrometals

do micro metals even exist in substantial capacity? The problem with micro plastics is that they don't break down and decay until like a gazillion years later, so whatever micro plastics are in your kidneys now, will continue to be in them until you die.

at least its not a single use product, the packaging it comes in is probably a worse contributor

Maybe extreme weather conditions for trail cams? That's the only reason I would think about using one but never actually buy one for lol.

People will pay more money for premium.

But yeah environmentally this is a damn good idea. We should make everything out of metal.

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