In article <1164302118.349328.150350@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"CoreyWhite" <CoreyWhite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>Barnabas Collins wrote:
>> On 22 Nov 2006 20:04:33 -0800, "CoreyWhite" <CoreyWhite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>> >And it will all run on nuclear power, not coal burning fossil fuel
>> >plants.
>> As someone who lives a few miles from a nuclear power plant the idea
>> of having Enron running a nuclear power plant scares me. I'd
>> shut down all the nuclear plants. I don't trust cor****ate
>> entities to run them. Also it's grid lock at rush hour, how
>> are they going to evacuate if there is a meltdown?
>>
>> I had doubts about global warming. Katrina disspelled those
>> doubts.
>
>I know, and according to my professor people like Homer Simpson really
>do work in nuclear power plants. That's scary when you are talking
>about the possibility of a major melt down. But Nuclear Power has been
>plugged by people in politics as a safe way to reduce fossil fuel
>emissions from coal burning factories, and dirty pollution that causes
>acid rain. But the steam emissions from nuclear powerplants produce
>more green house g***** than the CO^2 produced from coal, and its just
>as dangerous.
>
>The same thing is happening again with the new technologies the former
>Vice President is sup****ting, like Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Hydrogen may
>not be a greeen house gass, so it seems safe and friendly. But
>according to my professor it is an ozone depleting element.
Not really. Hydrogen is too reactive to make it up to the stratosphere in
elemental form.
> And
>because it is the lightest element on the periodic table, all the
>hydrogen will leak up into the top of the atmosphere and eat away at
>the ozone. Causing even more warming!!
First, most free hydrogen has already escaped from the earth, millions of
years ago. Hydrogen now is in the form of compounds, and those bonds are
pretty stable.
Secondly, stratospheric ozone is not a big contributor to global warming
or a
preventer thereof.
>
>Scary huh? But what this whole global warming debate is really about,
>is that we are running out of oil. And the politicians need a way to
>change over to nuclear powered rechargable battery systems, that run
>off of the electric grid. Or some other equally dangerous technology.
>And that's what the war in iraq is about too. It's just the
>republicans answer to the problem. But neither solution is good enough
>in a time when we are overpopulating at the exponential rate we have
>been in the past few hundren years.
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