Michael L. Wagner
07-17-2008, 01:20 AM
Compact-Fluorescent light bulbs CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS!!!
Read:
Mercury leaks found as new bulbs break--The Boston Globe.
...Even cleaning-up the dust from a broken bulb is very dangerous...
Here consider how the Wall Street journal reported that carbon monoxide, particulate, and sulfur dioxide emissions have been greatly reduced here in the US--since 1970: "All of this has been accomplished despite a doubling of the number of cars on the road and a near tripling of the number of miles driven."
However, another WSJ article explains that: "A significant portion of China''s air polution can be traced to the production of goods that are exported. In the city of Shenzhen, a major industrial base in southern China, about 89% of emissions of sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant that causes acid rain, are released in the process of export manufacturing ... The study also found 71% of particulate matter, the small particles that cause smog and respiratory problems, can be traced to themanufacture of exported goods."--China shifts pollution fight, 11/01/07.
"If you have emission constraints, it's become very attractive to relocate dirty production to developing countries ... You import the finished goods, and leave the pollution in China."--Why China Could Blame Its CO2 on West, WSJ, 11/12/07.
"Mercury and other pollutants from China's more than 2,000 coal-fired power plants soar high into the atmosphere and around the globe ... The US EPA recently reported that a third of the country's (USA) lakes and nearly a quarter of its rivers are now so polluted with mercury that children and women are advised to limit or void eating fish caught there ... Some scientists now say 30% or more of themercury settling into US ground soil and waterways comes from other countries--in particular, China."--Invisible Export--A Hidden Cost of China's Growth: Mercury Migration, WSJ, 12/20/04.
Note: GreenPeace and The Sierra Club have links to inexpensive mercury testing kits...
Naturally, Obama and McCain are huge advocates of COAL.
Read:
Nader opposesnuclear, coal, oil energy, supports wind, solar--Crosswalk website,
The Dirty Truth About Clean Coal--BusinessWeek, 06/19/08,
Real Solutions for Reducing Carbon Emissions--Rain Forest Action Network,
King Coal's Latest Con Job, Clean Coal is Not Clean--CounterPunch, 01/23/07.
Note: The Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbine = $.02 per kilowatt hour (plus its low-center-of-gravity = perfect for offshore wind farms = unlimited potential).
Hemp is an environmentally safe source for Ethanol, which easily could replace coal and oil in powerplants, yet, where 100% Ethanol burns very clean, when mixed with gasoline (E85) for cars, this actually causes more pollution that gasoline alone!!!
Read:
Ethanol vehicles pose significant risk to health, new study finds, Stanford study, Stanford News Service, 04/18/07.
Though "toyota Chief Executive Katsuaki Watanabe confirmed to BusinessWeek that the company would put high-capacity lithium-ion batteries in the third-generation Prius, due toward the end of 2008 or early 2009," one shouldn't hold his/her breath here...
Consider how public perception of the lithium-ion battery was smeared by Sony's massive recall!!! ...Part of the conspiracy to Murder the Electic Car...!!!
Note: The Tesla Roadster already uses a lithium-ion battery.
According to Wikipedia, Electric Vehicles--the lithium-ion battery takes minutes instead of hours to charge, and a single charge goes as far as a tank of gas.
...How difficult to design a car that has a battery-pack that's easily changed at a service station? How about a small emergency battery-pack that a tow truck could provide?
Finally, consider how Pres. Bush never actually won a Presidential Election: See The US Commission on Civil Rights Report on the Irregularities of the 2000 Florida Presidential Election (executive summary...), and the Rolling Stone Magazine article titled Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Then complain to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights about our corrupted election process: 1503@ohchr.org
Read:
Mercury leaks found as new bulbs break--The Boston Globe.
...Even cleaning-up the dust from a broken bulb is very dangerous...
Here consider how the Wall Street journal reported that carbon monoxide, particulate, and sulfur dioxide emissions have been greatly reduced here in the US--since 1970: "All of this has been accomplished despite a doubling of the number of cars on the road and a near tripling of the number of miles driven."
However, another WSJ article explains that: "A significant portion of China''s air polution can be traced to the production of goods that are exported. In the city of Shenzhen, a major industrial base in southern China, about 89% of emissions of sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant that causes acid rain, are released in the process of export manufacturing ... The study also found 71% of particulate matter, the small particles that cause smog and respiratory problems, can be traced to themanufacture of exported goods."--China shifts pollution fight, 11/01/07.
"If you have emission constraints, it's become very attractive to relocate dirty production to developing countries ... You import the finished goods, and leave the pollution in China."--Why China Could Blame Its CO2 on West, WSJ, 11/12/07.
"Mercury and other pollutants from China's more than 2,000 coal-fired power plants soar high into the atmosphere and around the globe ... The US EPA recently reported that a third of the country's (USA) lakes and nearly a quarter of its rivers are now so polluted with mercury that children and women are advised to limit or void eating fish caught there ... Some scientists now say 30% or more of themercury settling into US ground soil and waterways comes from other countries--in particular, China."--Invisible Export--A Hidden Cost of China's Growth: Mercury Migration, WSJ, 12/20/04.
Note: GreenPeace and The Sierra Club have links to inexpensive mercury testing kits...
Naturally, Obama and McCain are huge advocates of COAL.
Read:
Nader opposesnuclear, coal, oil energy, supports wind, solar--Crosswalk website,
The Dirty Truth About Clean Coal--BusinessWeek, 06/19/08,
Real Solutions for Reducing Carbon Emissions--Rain Forest Action Network,
King Coal's Latest Con Job, Clean Coal is Not Clean--CounterPunch, 01/23/07.
Note: The Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbine = $.02 per kilowatt hour (plus its low-center-of-gravity = perfect for offshore wind farms = unlimited potential).
Hemp is an environmentally safe source for Ethanol, which easily could replace coal and oil in powerplants, yet, where 100% Ethanol burns very clean, when mixed with gasoline (E85) for cars, this actually causes more pollution that gasoline alone!!!
Read:
Ethanol vehicles pose significant risk to health, new study finds, Stanford study, Stanford News Service, 04/18/07.
Though "toyota Chief Executive Katsuaki Watanabe confirmed to BusinessWeek that the company would put high-capacity lithium-ion batteries in the third-generation Prius, due toward the end of 2008 or early 2009," one shouldn't hold his/her breath here...
Consider how public perception of the lithium-ion battery was smeared by Sony's massive recall!!! ...Part of the conspiracy to Murder the Electic Car...!!!
Note: The Tesla Roadster already uses a lithium-ion battery.
According to Wikipedia, Electric Vehicles--the lithium-ion battery takes minutes instead of hours to charge, and a single charge goes as far as a tank of gas.
...How difficult to design a car that has a battery-pack that's easily changed at a service station? How about a small emergency battery-pack that a tow truck could provide?
Finally, consider how Pres. Bush never actually won a Presidential Election: See The US Commission on Civil Rights Report on the Irregularities of the 2000 Florida Presidential Election (executive summary...), and the Rolling Stone Magazine article titled Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Then complain to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights about our corrupted election process: 1503@ohchr.org