RetiredGySgt
Diamond Member
When have any of you environmental whack jobs ever backed up any of your claims?
I have about a teaspoon of mercury...come and eat it and about 6 thermometers while your at it...since it's so safe...
Actually, it would probably just pass right through you and be perfectly harmless. MethylMercury is toxic, but pure Mercury is mostly inert.
That being said, even if a teaspoon of Mercury would kill you within hours, that doesn't mean the amounts you're exposed to from coal fired power plants is dangerous. As is the case with every known toxin, there is a threshold amount below which there are no harmful effects. Power plant emissions are well below that amount.
I am STILL waiting for them to explain how suddenly after over 100 years of Coal fired plants SUDDENLY we have a problem. If the danger was there why don't we have historical records of mass disease and death ( even unaccounted ones) around, near and in the wind pattern of Coal fired plants?