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echo: all-politics
to: ALLEN PRUNTY
from: GERHARD STRANGAR
date: 2017-02-22 18:16:00
subject: Environmental Polution...

Am 21 Feb 17  15:42:44 schrob Allen Prunty an Gerhard Strangar zum Thema 


>> Most of the Plants have Scrubbers and still emit over 500 lbs of 
>> mercury per  year.
[...]
AP> In the great scheme of things more 
AP> mercury is released from the breakage of florescant lighting tubes 
AP> (including cfl bulbs) than the power plant.

LOL.
500 lbs are about 250 kg, the maximum amount of mercury in a European tube or
bulb is 35 mg, which means one power plant emits enough mercury for over seven
million pieces per year.

AP> The radiation that was measured on our west coast, especially Oregon, 
AP> was quite significant.

Which is in Sv/h?



Tschoe mit Oe
Gerhard
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