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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (452693)	1/30/2009 8:43:46 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574060

CJ, I brought up the "aluminum foil" effect as an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Another example is the rush toward biofuels, which in Brazil is causing huge tracts of rainforest to be cleared for cultivation. That is likely having a bigger impact on the levels of CO2 in the air than that of the biofuels grown in its place. Yet another example is the mercury content of compact fluorescent light bulbs, which I use a lot of. They save energy, but I'm concerned about the mercury. I've seen graphs comparing it to the amount of mercury emissions from dirty coal, but geez, anything is cleaner than dirty coal. Tenchusatsu