Frederick Sparber wrote:
A 100,000 BTU per hour central heat furnace each hour of burning fossil fuel
adds about 30 pounds of Carbon Dioxide to the earth's atmosphere,
Equally bad for the environment, and probably far worse for humans
(incresed cancer risk) is this information:
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
Americans living near coal plants are exposed to far more radiation than
those living or working in nuclear plants. Hope Richard has a whole
house electrostatic air filter built into the AC.
Based on the predicted combustion, and cumulative releases for the past
100 years of coal combustion (pre WWII to the near future) this is the
aftermath which our grandkids must live with:
U.S. toxic releases(from combustion of 111,716 million tons of coal):
Uranium: 145,230 tons
Thorium: 357,491 tons
Hey folks this is in the form of highly particulated toxic radioactive
particles which stay suspended in the atmosphere. By comparison
Chernobyl released less twenty tons into the air (7000 time less) and
most of it fell to earth in a week, as it was less particulated.
Worldwide release (from combustion of 637,409 million tons):
Uranium: 828,632 tons (containing 5883 tons of uranium-235)
Thorium: 2,039,709 tons
(thanks to Horace Heffner, who may be floating to sea in a melting
Alaskan glacier by now)
Jones
