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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:47:34 +0000 From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@is9.nyu.edu> To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> CC: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com> Reply-To: Michael Hohensee <mah248@is9.nyu.edu> Jim Choate wrote: > > Forwarded message: > > > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:08:08 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> > > Subject: Re: I thought of an initialy regulated industry!... (fwd) > > > > Consider the difference in volume of these two waste products... > > > > > > Really? The amount of fuel that goes into a nuclear plant is farirly low, > > compared to the amount shoved into a coal plant. > > Exactly my point. > > A 1000MW coal plant produces approx 300,000 tons of waste product per year. > A nuclear plan produces .5. This means the concentration of the chemicals in > the coal plant are much lower by many orders of magnitude than the nuclear, > hence making the nuclear waste more toxic by a great deal. > The latter does not necessarily follow from the former. Consider the example of natural gas and gasoline. You don't get to conclude your argument that easily! :) Michael Hohensee
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