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And please don't forget the radiation! The strongest external radiation source (after discounting for unavoidable items like the universe and your house) in your life is your spouse. The potassium 40 in their bones adds a fraction of a millirem to your annual radiation exposure if you happen to share a bed. Of course, you get a lot more from your own bones.... but again... deboning is, at least not yet, an acceptable cosmetic surgery procedure...
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http://www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/potassium.pdf
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/myths/spouse_irradiation.html
Who knew? Thanks. Slightly off topic, but I had a couple questions for you: Did you reread my profile? Any Specific errors you see?
You wrote 100k FDIC, It's 250K now, right?
This is an old physics joke with a sliver of truth to it. The first time I heard it I was surprised that it makes a measurable difference. But it does. If you stand next to the right type of radiation detector, you can see the count rate go up ever so slightly (but a cheapo Geiger-Muller counter won't do, you need professional equipment for this kind of measurement).
I did not read your profile lately. In the past I thought you were grossly under-representing the cost for renewable energy. I think you were claiming something on the order of $1 trillion, whereas I get more on the order of tens of trillions, if I plug in realistic numbers.
Let me put it this way: if we lay off the war making and international policing and if we agree to pay slightly higher taxes (especially on energy), we can do all of this stuff and clean our environment. It's just not a trivial effort. And I believe people need to understand that. They need to know that an American household will have to spend $1000/year or more on this thing instead of sending the money to Canada, Mexico and OPEC in return for oil. And even if we do all the right things it will take many decades to clean house. It is a big house, after all.
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