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Article #237Re: What's wrong with geothermal?
From: Jim Lillie
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:09
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:09
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Timberwoof wrote: > In article <1167544085.362178.229360@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>, > "Addinall" <addinall@addinall.org> wrote: > > >>Of course if you pump a load of water down a hole that >>is being heated by a load of radioactive rock, some of that >>radioactive material will be dissolved or kept in supension >>in the water, and it's going to come up to the surface. > > > Oh. I did not know that lava coming out of volcanoes is radioactive. I'm > sure that very few people know this. I think that even geologists don't > know this. > They know. The coal pile at a power plant may exceed the perimiter level allowed for a nuclear plant. The Congressional hearings after 3 Mile Island had a higher background level in the *granite* walled hearing chamber - than the peak exposure downwind from the 'incident'. Radioactive is not yes/no binary beyond the individual atom level. What is the proportion of your sample, of what isotopes. Remember - sunburn is radiation damage from a fusion reactor. TURN OFF THE SUN. Oooops? What other problems? Jim Lillie
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