Craig and Alain-- Mutagenic changes in gene cells are not always corrected in the egg cells of females nor in the sperm cell of males. However damaged egg cells are more likely because they stay vital for many years, sometimes a much as 60 years in humans. If an egg cell incurs a mutagenic change that is not fixed, (and that happens) the mutation is passed on to future generations if the off spring is vital. Most such mutations cause some sort of health effect, including more susceptibility to cancer.
It was shown that the effects of tritium on vole populations around Chernobyl suffered such mutations as a result of very low concentrations of tritium. Tritium is an insidious radiologic contaminant because it becomes incorporated in all cells, including DNA. It’s low beta energy, 18 KEV, deposits nearly all its energy in a short distance—about 6 microns. This is about the size of a cell nucleus. The likelihood of mutations that do not kill the cell is high. The vole population demonstrated that significant mutations did occur in the populations around Chernobyl that were passed on to subsequent generations. The live of a vole is short and the potential for any egg cell being damaged is much lower than it may be in humans, maybe thirty times less likely. The models for mutation in single strand DNA as occurs in egg cells and their repair is significantly different than for a regular cell that carries the male and the female’s DNA. There is no apparent lower threshold for egg cell mutations that can be passed on to future generations of off spring and many subsequent individuals. The problem is significant for small breeding populations of people, for example various indigenous folks. Bob Cook From: Alain Sepeda Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 3:03 PM To: Vortex List Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu) to be clear it is long ago proven that hormesis is real, thet there is structural threshold in genotoxic effects, ... As much as LENR is long time measured, ormesis and threshold are measured. much meter tha Rossi's calorimetry. every 6 month someone say that we have at last found that, and nobody cares... we are unders propaganda war , and this is hopeless. there is no epidemiology, nor biological tknowledge on cancerogenesis and genotoxicity that makes that result surpsing. latest I caught is https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160316085015.htm but there are papers since decades on that. LLNT is a joke, but news and politics are full of joke. 2016-05-13 15:37 GMT+02:00 Chris Zell <[email protected]>: I agree. There is too much assumption that harm created by pollution or radiation is perfectly linear, down to tiny amounts. There doesn't seem to be any allowance for hormesis. And, yes, I own solar panels. -----Original Message----- From: a.ashfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu) Jed, I think the numbers killed by power plants, at least in the US,are very flakey. Likewise the number skilled by particulates from indoor cooking relies on models that are probably as bad as IPCC's models of global warming. I'm not interested enough to spend the time it would take to prove it. I'll believe photo voltaic power is cheaper when I actually see it. For lighting with a cheap system remember the sun goes away when it gets dark.
