>Just check the ingredients (if you can) used to manufacture charcoal >briquettes.
Really? Damn. Hm. I see brown coal and paraffin, nothing more sinister though. Best Keith >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Keith Addison >Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:10 PM >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse >Than Nuclear Weapons > >Hi Andy > >I wonder what happened to the US plans to recycle radioactive nuclear >wastes into common household appliances like kitchen cutlery and >babies' prams and so on? The proposals came up a couple of times. Did >they just drop it or are they going ahead without telling anybody? >Similar sort of insanity to industry's "reycling" thousands of tons >of hazwastes - lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and so on - as fill >for fertiliser, which US farmers happily spread on their fields to >grow their food crops. All perfectly legal too. > >>The fact that it pollutes the immediate area, its users as well as anyone >in >>the area of its firing is not important to the US Government, nor will it >>ever be. > >I'm sure you're right about that. :-( > >Best > >Keith > > >>Here in Florida we have 'gypsum stacks' which are huge piles of ... Gypsum >a >>by-product from the processing of phosphate to "fertilizer". It is >somewhat >>(very low level) radio-active, and as such cannot be used for road beds, >>construction etc. I'll bet that DU is stronger, and worse for the >imbibers. >>And excreted or not, we are seeing high rates of deformities in babies in >>Afghanistan, Iraq, (where the DU is used) and among returning soldiers' >>families as well. >>DU is a great way to dispose of waste products that normally would not be >>allowed to be disposed of most places in the US. Why not make it into >>munitions (yes, its high density makes it a perfect armor piercing weapon). >>The fact that it pollutes the immediate area, its users as well as anyone >in >>the area of its firing is not important to the US Government, nor will it >>ever be. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>Chip Mefford >>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:32 PM >>To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org >>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse >>Than Nuclear Weapons >> >>Chip Mefford wrote: >>> Craig Barrett wrote: >>>> Hmmmm... while DU may be dangerous, this article doesn't help much with >>the >>>> way it's written - poor use of statistics, no references to support its >>>> claims. It's exactly this kind of shoddy work that causes the raising >of >>>> the skeptical eyebrow at those who're fighting against things like DU. >>This >>>> is a real pity because I think it hampers what might otherwise be a >>really >>>> good cause. >>> >>> Wholly agreed. >> >> >SNIP >> >>I kinda want to change my language, but it's already posted, so I'll >>just add my after-thoughts. >> >>Point, my use of 'non-issue' just doesn't feel right. But it really >>does seem that the who has really played this down. >> >>Point. I agree with the basic premise of the original article. >>However, this statement "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the >>most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive." >>I've read before, elsewhere, I can't substantiate it. >>Against the background radiation of other areas in the region, yeah, >>it's up a bit. And it's my feeling/opinion, that a 'bit' is a huge >>amount, but with what passes for 'expertise' in these areas, folks >>seem to think that's okay, when going for health expert citations. >>See the who report I linked earlier. >> >>yes, I think that service folks are paying a terrible price, and the >>people of the area we all call Irag are paying a staggeringly price > >orders of magnitude above. >> >>This is all happening whether there is 'consensus' by us or not. >>Uranium is just fine, left in the ground, in it's natural state, >>unrefined, and not touched, the way it should be. Doing anything >>else with it, is just insane. That's my take. >> > >Proving that, otoh, has proven to be pretty difficult. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
