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This is interesting

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:32 am
by Jccarlton
From future:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/beyond ... nding.html
I have to wonder who pays him.

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:27 am
by Skipjack
Yeah he is a protester by profession. Scum!
I hate that kind. Lots of those in my country too.

Re: This is interesting

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:23 pm
by Diogenes
Jccarlton wrote:From future:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/beyond ... nding.html
I have to wonder who pays him.
I've read many times that burning coal introduces a huge amount of toxins and radiation into the air. What many people don't understand is that coal is not pure. It contains all sorts of stuff like mercury and uranium, etc.


And they think Nuclear is unsafe! :)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:37 pm
by Diogenes

Re: This is interesting

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:35 pm
by IntLibber
Diogenes wrote:
Jccarlton wrote:From future:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/beyond ... nding.html
I have to wonder who pays him.
I've read many times that burning coal introduces a huge amount of toxins and radiation into the air. What many people don't understand is that coal is not pure. It contains all sorts of stuff like mercury and uranium, etc.


And they think Nuclear is unsafe! :)
yeah when I was an energy analyst in Seattle I got the official dept of energy study that looked at radioactive and heavy metal isotopes in coal plant fly ash. While scrubbers went a long way to reducing the atmospheric footprint of flyash fallout, congress still allows coal plant operators to sell the fly ash to cement factories as filler, which causes the concrete in your house basement to emit radiation and radioactive byproducts like.... DUM DUM DUM... radon...

They get away with telling people that radon is "naturally occuring" but not that the radon that accumulates in your basement can't be naturally emitted by the ground, because house foundations have moisture barriers that prevent most ground emitted gasses from accumulating down there. No, the radon is mostly coming from the concrete itself....

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 4:34 pm
by Skipjack
Yeah, I would much prefer to live right next door to a nuke, than 20 miles from a coal plant.