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A Calculation: How Many Trillions of Dollars of Environmental Damage Will IGCC Coal Cost? | 89 comments (89 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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It needs either fuels or batteries for vehicles. Note that transportation fuels need not be a source of energy but only a store of energy. Synthetic hydrocarbons would also work.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:28:55 AM EST
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Or small nuclear power plants in each vehicle. That'd be ok too.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:31:28 AM EST
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Nah, too much need for radiation protection.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:35:53 AM EST
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Think of the new markets for lead underwear though. It'd be a new industrial revolution!
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:38:44 AM EST
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Isn't there a theory that lead poisoning brought down the Roman Empire?

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:41:33 AM EST
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A theory?!? The Romans were solely responsible for boosting the atmospheric lead pollution to such levels they are recognisable as anthropolical markers in ice cores. The whole elite of Romans who drank wine (and who at that time didn't?) is suspect to have suffered of chronic and heavy lead poisoning.

The evidence, however, remains scant - because the Romans cremated when possible. And because the elite had the money to cremate their deceased - little adult bones have been preserved. But children bones have - and each analysis shows they were over the top contaminated with lead. Even although children have a larger uptake of lead into their system, the evidence that the entire Roman civilisation was high on lead is stacking.

Thanks for that. This was part of my thesis subject.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:50:06 AM EST
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Putting the whole blame of the destruction of the Roman Empire on Pb - would be a little too much credit for one element.

But contributed? Very feasible, in my mind.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 09:53:01 AM EST
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A Calculation: How Many Trillions of Dollars of Environmental Damage Will IGCC Coal Cost? | 89 comments (89 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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