Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Coal and Mercury
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Question: What’s the principal mechanism by which mercury gets in your body? What does it do once it gets there?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Most people place a higher value on their family’s than on any possession.
Craig,
Addicted to Facebook pundits as you seem to have become, I hope you realize it may not be the most authoritative source of information, don’t you?
Well of course you do! Just as you realize most of your propaganda against Clean(er)Coal technology is out of date or just plain wrong !
That would explain why you are so reluctant to acknowledge the huge strides of progress occurring to make the coal industry environmentally beneficial. (That recent chart showing all the progress must terrify you).
If you disagree, here’s the challenge publish and discuss the graphic on the Clean Coal story appearing in the publication of the American Energy Society, which even you acknowledge as authoritative.
On the other hand, you never mention the toxic pollution, including mercury, involved in the disposal of solar panels! Even Eric Gies writing in the Guardian, pointed out the hypocrisy of California, which acknowledges the disposal problem by regulating disposing the toxic waste by transporting it out of state where disposal is legal.
California has no solar module recycling facilities, claiming disposal is too expensive and dangerous. (but it’s Okay for other Americans).
The US has no federal standard or requirement for end-of-life management of photovoltaic panels, neither has any major state.
The State of Washington passed legislation in 2016 requiring manufacturers to finance the recovery and recycling of panels sold in the state. But won’t be implemented until 2021, and will probably just wok the same as California by shipping old panels out of the state.
The most popular method is to ship these toxic panels to a third world country for “recycling” ensuring the toxins are absorbed by workers earning less that a few dollars a day and don’t appear on any health reporting.