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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Technically correct for some coal plants. Coal has minute quantities of Hg. Clean coal technologies are removing the Hg and apparently mitigates the problem. Nadel can take his twisty bulb & go play with it till it breaks.


31 posted on 03/10/2011 2:45:14 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

I understand that coal has all kinds of nasty stuff in it, including Hg....if not virtually every element in the periodic chart!

Do you think that a coal plant producing 100 watts for the life of an incandescent bulb produces that much mercury? I suppose it’s possible for some types of coal. I also understand that 5.5 gms of Hg, being pretty heavy, does not occupy much volume.


33 posted on 03/10/2011 2:52:43 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Which has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
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