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Newsgroups: sci.environment
From: Steinn Sigurdsson <ste...@muon.astro.psu.edu>
Date: 2000/04/03
Subject: Re: $Windpower-Energy Storage$
"Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwhe...@attcanada.net> writes: Well, who are you going to trust, the DHSS or EDF? > Steinn Sigurdsson wrote in message ... > >"Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwhe...@attcanada.net> writes: > >> ant wrote in message ... > >> >wonder what its toxicity is like as some escape into the environment is > >> >unavoidable, electric car crashes rupturing fuel tanks and so on. > >> There is good info on Vanadium here: > >> It is toxic in high concentrations but is not considered a carcinogen and > is > >Tsk, scorecard.org ranks Vanadium as one > >of the most hazardous to human health (worst 10%) > >and claims it is an immunotoxin. > That was surprising since the following source source, while noting problems > with inhaled vanadium don't seem all that worked up about it. It isn't > easily absorbed , doesn't bioaccumulate and doesn't seem to be a carcinogen. It can be if you want. :-) > Oh yes, It isn't radioactive. :^) You KNOW that makes me smile. > U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Check the EPA instead. > Public Health Service > Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry > http://www.ic.be/incin/vanadium.htm ... > How likely is vanadium to cause cancer? Tsk. No studies. > The Department of Health and Human Services, the International Agency for > Research on Cancer, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have not > classified vanadium as to its human carcinogenicity. > No human studies are available on the carcinogenicity of vanadium. No > increase in tumors was noted in a long-term animal study where the animals > were exposed to vanadium in the drinking water. Hmm, well, obviously we had better freeze any large scale development of vanadium containing devices which might cause chronic or acute exposure to the general public, until it is actually established whether it is a carcinogen or not. Come back in 15 years after doing a large enough You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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