[103722] in Cypherpunks
Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Oct 2 07:57:58 1998
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:41:29 -0400
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03130300b2396d276094@[209.133.20.6]>
Reply-To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
At 10:46 AM 10/1/98 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>Finally, the "environmental burden" imposed by a coal-fired power plant is
>vastly greater than that from a nuclear plant. Do the math on particulates,
>carbon levels, etc. Many libertarians have proposed better schemes for
>dealing with such environmental burdens....if fossil fuel-powered plants
>had to actually pay their share of environmental costs, they'd be even more
>expensive than nuclear.
A normally operating coal plant releases more radioactive material (carbon
14) than a normally operating nuclear plant. The waste products from a
coal plant are not only more voluminous (though less dense) than the coal
that goes in but also contain a substance that is more poisonous than
plutonium (arsenic trioxide).
DCF
