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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
- Keywords: energy environment press
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.013449.1720@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:34:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.213546.6235@vexcel.com> <1993Jan22.093901.13563@netcom.com> <59049@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <59049@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.093901.13563@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
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- >>Even if they make a special exception for table salt, as I sit here
- >>thinking about the pervasiveness of chlorine compounds in the chemical
- >>industry... the mind boggles. Moderates think I'm exaggerating
- >>to the point of ranting when I say the hard-core greenies want to
- >>put an end to industrial civilization. Unfortunately, it's not an
- >>exaggeration.
- >
- >Please tell us what other industrial uses of chlorine you have in mind.
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- In the worlds of Dr. McCoy "My God, man " didn't you ever take an
- organic chemistry class? Heck, start with swimming pool acid, bleach,
- and road salt, then work your way up to pickling acid in metal working
- and end with a few hundred key reactions that use organochlorines as
- intermediaries...
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- It is hard for me to decide which would be more damaging, elimination
- of chlorine or elimination of sulphuric acid...
-
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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