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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
- Keywords: energy environment press
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:21:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.093901.13563@netcom.com> <59049@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1993Jan25.013449.1720@michael.apple.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.013449.1720@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- >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.
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- >>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,
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- I must have not made my point clearly. A Greenpeace press release, from
- Austria I believe, calls for reduction of, maybe even elimination of,
- industrial uses of chlorine. The self proclaimed defenders of science and
- technlogy on the net: without reading the report itself, attack Greenpeace
- on the grounds that table salt contains chlorine. This attack must rest on
- one of two premises: both of which are idiotic. The first premise is that
- table salt is made by combining chlorine and sodium in an industrial
- process. The second is that when GP critiqued the chlorine industry, they
- were calling for the elimination of all chlorine compounds from the planet,
- both industrial and natural. In my ever so humble opinion,
- if one is going to be a standard bearer for the scientific method,
- one should do a little better than this.
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- >I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.
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