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‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel
(www.theguardian.com)
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What's funny is that coal power puts 100x more radiation into the environment than nuclear power.
Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.
It's not even really an eventually, it's about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.
It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.
https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal
specifically tuna, its the bioaccumulation on the food web, the TUNA eats other animals that have mercury in it, that eats smaller animals that filter mercury, it piles up.
thats likely the least of the problems coal can do, global warming, pullution
Right, but this is a clear gatcha since all people want to talk about when it comes to nuclear is "toxic green sludge" and storage, as if the rocks didn't already come from inside a mountain...
That is funny!