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And why? Might you ask, did the people of Fargo lose their homes?
[URL="http://www.kxmc.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=313815"]Dec. 30, 2008 Story shows "Record Snowfall Across the State".[/URL] What? Record snowfall, why where's the Global Warming that's supposed to give us mild warm winters? How could this be, Didn't Al Gore say there will be record breaking droughts right about now, which means LESS Snowfall, and LESS flooding? Let me read some excerpts to you...
"Other snowfall amounts include 10 inches each in Turtle Lake and Bowdon, 8.2 inches in Williston, 6 inches in [B][SIZE="3"]Fargo[/SIZE][/B] and about 5 inches in Jamestown and Minot."
Keep in mind that the flooding is supposed to come from the shrinking Glaciers, but Oh wait.... [URL="http://www.prisonplanet.com/arctic-ice-grows-30-per-cent-in-a-year.html"]Those are growing again too![/URL]
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Originally Posted by MannieD View Post
We now interrupt the OP right wing propaganda with some facts.
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How much mercury do power plants emit to light a CFL?
About 50 percent of the electricity produced in the U.S. is generated by coal-fired power plants. When coal burns to produce electricity, mercury naturally contained in the coal releases into the air. In 2006, coal-fired power plants produced 1,971 billion kilowatt hours (kwh) of electricity, emitting 50.7 tons of mercury into the air—the equivalent amount of mercury contained in more than 9 billion CFLs (the bulbs emit zero mercury when in use or being handled).
Approximately 0.0234 mg of mercury—plus carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide—releases into the air per 1 kwh of electricity that a coal-fired power plant generates. Over the 7500-hour average range of one CFL, then, a plant will emit 13.16 mg of mercury to sustain a 75-watt incandescent bulb but only 3.51 mg of mercury to sustain a 20-watt CFL (the lightning equivalent of a 75-watt traditional bulb). Even if the mercury contained in a CFL was directly released into the atmosphere, an incandescent would still contribute 4.65 more milligrams of mercury into the environment over its lifetime.
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Great point, except here's the problem. There's already patented processes for removing Mercury from the Coal Fired plants, there's just no Giant Corporation like GE making Billions of dollars off this kind of proposal. There's also no politicians with the guts to put the regulations into place.
So instead you're going to had Billions of Fragile Mercury filled bulbs to hundreds of millions of consumers out there that YOU KNOW and I know they NEVER read the labels and will just dump them in the trash, breaking them in the process.
Right now we have Mercury contamination centered around certain areas where Coal is burned for electricity, in the future we will have mercury contamination EVERYWHERE.
What makes more sense to you? Regulate the Coal fired Power plants and force them to reduce Mercury output, or putting Billions of Mercury filled Bulbs in the hands of people, you KNOW will contaminate our environment, just to reduce the amount of Electricity used?
Seems like a no brainer to me.