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Hydrogen Sulphide and Landfill

Posted on August 19, 2021 by borderslynn

Most of us will live within a 25 mile radius of a landfill for household waste. It is often visible from roads nearby as waste trucks drive up and dump the waste and gulls fly over attracted by the chance … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bio-persistent plastics, cancer, energy production, extracting gas, landfill management, landfill sites, pollution, respiratory illness, toxic environments | 1 Comment

Quartz and Solar Panels

Posted on May 16, 2021 by borderslynn

‘Clean Energy’, ‘Renewables’, ‘Alternative Energy’……….We can save the Planet! Well, can we do so without savaging the Planet and harming our health? Before we even attempt to create technologies to provide such solutions, we need to lay out the evidence … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged cancer, carcinogens, dust, environment concerns, greenwashing, health, new technology, planet harm, quartz mining, silicosis, solar panels, wildlife survival | 1 Comment

Concrete. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 25, 2021 by borderslynn

You cannot build a wind turbine without using concrete. Indeed, for each turbine, requires 900 tons of steel, 2500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic. The above image is in a design manual. Concrete seems to have been … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aggregates, cancer, concrete kiln, concrete manufacture, health and safety, lung disease, mining, quarrying, silica dust, silicosis, wind turbines | Leave a comment

Making Steel to Meet Demand. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 21, 2021 by borderslynn

To make a Turbine, a modern renewable technology, we need steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminium (0-2%). So to reduce the use of coal to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blast furnace, cancer, coke, contamination, demand and supply, energy, health and safety, human invention, industrialisation, iron, poison, science, steel, technology, wind turbines | 1 Comment