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Posted On: 09/24/2019 10:22:11 AM
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Einstein comes back, lays aside the Talmud and the Bible, reads quote below, palm slaps forehead.
After removing hands from forehead Albert is introduced to the Google Machine and he is impressed and pleased as he reads how particle physics has led to the imbedding of technology, mostly for the good, in our daily lives.
But he is puzzled with the persistence of coal as an energy source and he laughs aloud at the climate change denial and the attribution of poisonous lethality to clean sources of energy by anti-science nitwits.
Also puzzling, Albert thinks, is not taking into account the lethality in the production of forms of energy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/...2b9438709b
Quote:
The dems do not care if solar and wind poison us all.
After removing hands from forehead Albert is introduced to the Google Machine and he is impressed and pleased as he reads how particle physics has led to the imbedding of technology, mostly for the good, in our daily lives.
But he is puzzled with the persistence of coal as an energy source and he laughs aloud at the climate change denial and the attribution of poisonous lethality to clean sources of energy by anti-science nitwits.
Also puzzling, Albert thinks, is not taking into account the lethality in the production of forms of energy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/...2b9438709b
Quote:
But an energy’s deathprint, as it is called, is rarely discussed. The deathprint is the number of people killed by one kind of energy or another per kWhr produced and, like the carbon footprint, coal is the worst and wind and nuclear are the best. According to the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Academy of Science and many health studies over the last decade (NAS 2010), the adverse impacts on health become a significant effect for fossil fuel and biofuel/biomass sources (see especially Brian Wang for an excellent synopsis).
Although it is difficult to assign a cost to these numbers, estimates have suggested a 10% increase in health care costs in countries where coal makes up a significant fraction of the energy mix, like the U.S. and Europe (NAS 2010; Cohen et al., 2005; Pope et al., 2002). These additional health costs begin to rival the total energy costs on an annual basis for the U.S. given that health care costs top $2.6 trillion, and electricity costs only exceed about $400 billion. Another way to describe this human health energy fee is that it costs about 2,000 lives per year to keep the lights on in Beijing but only about 200 lives to keep them on in New York.
Guess that’s just the cost of doing business…
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