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Well-meaning advice to be sure, but utter nonsense. "They're not going to find anything in the water," says Dr. Lewis Braverman, chief of endocrinology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Lithium decreases the thyroid's output instead of increasing it. As for iodine, a person would have to consume at least 10 to 50 times the normal daily dosage in order to trigger hyperthyroidism. "It's sort of a feeding frenzy," says Dr. Charles Christian, physician in chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. "All the attention is pressuring the people taking care...
...generating nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat and electric power...
...Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power -- unveiled plans to cut their emissions of CO2 20% during the next 20 years, largely through conservation programs and the use of solar and geothermal technologies. It was the first time any U.S. utility had promised to reduce its output of CO2 to help curb global warming. Southern California Edison chairman John Bryson says the policy "makes good scientific, environmental and business sense...
...these were hardly the first power companies to go green. In January the largest U.S. utility, San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric, announced a $2 billion plan by which it hopes to save 2,500 MW of electricity during the next decade -- equivalent to the output of several new power plants -- by encouraging customers to use energy more efficiently. New England Electric, which has one of the nation's most ambitious conservation programs, sends bright yellow vans into neighborhoods in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, giving away efficient fluorescent lights and wrapping water heaters with heat- retaining blankets. Similar programs...
...pumping into the atmosphere by up to 2%. Kuwait's fires are putting out as much CO2 as all the cars, homes and industries of France. While these emissions will stop when the fires are put out, the gas will remain aloft for 100 years. Trying to reduce CO2 output by an equivalent amount will be difficult, even for the world's largest economies, says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at Washington's World Resources Institute...