Re: [FRIAM] toxins from magnets

2011-03-22 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Steve, There is a basic cybernetic solution. Pump the output of the smokestacks into the mill-owner's aircirculation system. Internalize all externalities. Either the rich people stop polluting or they die. Either way, the problem of pollution is solved. Also the guilt problem. Oh, and I do r

Re: [FRIAM] toxins from magnets

2011-03-22 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Peggy, I'm sure there is a more expensive way of making magnets that produces less pollution. (Actually, probably the way described with another set of equally sized plants to clean up the waste.) Eric On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 11:10 AM, peggy miller wrote: > >I wondered if any of you know of a way t

Re: [FRIAM] toxins from magnets

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Smith
Peggy - You ask: /I wondered if any of you know of a way to keep magnet production from producing enormous toxin byproducts. Turns out magnets are needed for large wind turbines that Britain is building, and China makes the magnets cause has the metals for doing so. But result is

[FRIAM] toxins from magnets

2011-03-22 Thread peggy miller
I wondered if any of you know of a way to keep magnet production from producing enormous toxin byproducts. Turns out magnets are needed for large wind turbines that Britain is building, and China makes the magnets cause has the metals for doing so. But result is huge pollution. I am trying to find