A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick.
A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick.
The article talks about PCBs, by which they mean polychlorinated biphenyls, that leak out.
A much more common meaning for the same acronym is Printed Circuit Bords, which are these green/blue/black/red (rarely other colors) boards that e.g. hold most computer components and connect them to each other. Pretty much anything that’s called a board in a computer and other electronic devices is a PCB.
PCBs don’t melt, so if your PC is leaking PCBs (as in Printed Circuit Boards) something must have seriously gone wrong.
Since LEDs also have PCBs I thought there was something about replacing light fixtures with computers was the punch line.
“When LEDs can melt their PCBs things have gone terribly wrong” would a least match the article.