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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: solar cells
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Date: 5 Jan 91 02:38:03 GMT
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In article <37572@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes:
|>I don't care if the poison comes from the construction of the physical
|>plant or the burning of the fuel, why do you?
|
|  Because you aren't taking into account the poison that comes from the
|physical plant.  If you want to take that into account, then that just adds
|similar amounts of poison to each side of the argument.  In addition, I'm not

"Similar" amounts of poison? You just make this up and expect us to believe.

|>So how come you keep ignoring the manufacture of solar cells?
|
|  I don't.  Those are startup costs like the building of a nuclear plant.

"Like". I love the way you non-technical people "analyze" things. But
I suppose when you don't know what you're talking about, that's what
you have to resort to.

|  I don't, and never said so.  I said "chemical" and you are talking about
|"elemental".  Elemental poisons are not broken down, they are recycled into
|the system.

(we are supposed to believe that elements are not chemicals)

Ok, then we'll recycle radioactive material as nuclear fuel. This makes
nuclear power perfectly clean and non-polluting.

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