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From: Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net>
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Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> writes:

> In article <ick3tl8u5e....@home.home>, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> writes:
>> 
>> > In article <jlmba8pbjsod3u357kh82p40kscsj6v...@4ax.com>,
>> >  Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:41:18 -0500, Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >In article <50a396e1$28$fuzhry+tra$mr2...@news.patriot.net>,
>> >> > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid> 
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> In <k80410$41...@dont-email.me>, on 11/14/2012
>> >> >>    at 07:56 AM, Peter Flass <Peter_Fl...@Yahoo.com> said:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> >*That* sounds so much safer than nuclear.  What happens if a
>> >> >> >container full of molten Sodium mounted 100 feet in the air
>> >> >> >ruptures?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Hey, it's better than a coal plant, which will kill people even in
>> >> >> normal operation.
>> >> >
>> >> >And radioisotopes decay, unlike mercury and such.
>> >> 
>> >>      But isn't that the problem?
>> >> 
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >> 
>> >> Gene Wirchenko
>> >
>> > The thing is mercury will be around forever, whereas radioisotopes 
>> > will disappear eventually. We've already burned enough coal to put 
>> > limits on consumption of some ocean fish for some people and the 
>> > amount of mercury in the larger predatory fish is probably not good 
>> > for anyone.
>> >
>> > Fortunately we are overfishing the most problematic fish, so it may 
>> > not be a long range problem.
>> 
>> You can have the best of both worlds.
>> Radioisotopes of mercury.
>> 
>> Mercury disappears in some sense, when it gets buried.
>> For example, in coffins.
>
> That lasts for a while, but eventually bodies get recycled. I suppose 
> you could go for a lead lined coffin, but someone is liable to dig up 
> the coffin.

You mean that a "perpetual" burial plot isn't forever?

Just kidding of course.

I inherited a perpetual maintenance plot bought in the 1930s.
Put my MIL in it and a few months later, the church owning the land
wanted me to "renew" the perpetual maintenance.

-- 
Dan Espen