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From: ajagt@earth.execpc.com (Arnold Jagt)
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Subject: Access to Energy Newsletter
Date: 30 Sep 1994 10:13:50 -0500
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Within days of the Chernobyl accident we warned our 6,000 readers:

DON'T DRINK 63,000 GALLONS OF RAIN WATER!

My name is Art Robinson. I am Professor of Chemistry at the Oregon 
Institute of Science and Medicine, and I publish a pro-science, 
pro-technology, pro-free enterprise monthly newsletter, Access to 
Energy, which in September 1993 began its twenty first year. Access to 
Energy was founded by Professor Petr Beckmann in 1973 and published by 
him until his death in 1993.

As for those 63,000 gallons, our readers know why they are safe. We 
don't ask them to trust and parrot us, we ask them to think.

In this case, we told them how much radioactive iodine 131 is given to 
a healthy patient in a thyroid check: up to 90 microcuries (a cancer 
patient is given much more). And we reported the maximum measured 
activity in rainwater washing out Chernobyls iodine over the US: 
0.00036 microcuries per liter.  There is about 4 liters to the gallon; 
hence 63,000 gallons of "contaminated" rain water "full of fallout" 
will give you as much radioactive iodine as you get when you have your 
thyroid checked.

Does that tiny grain of knowledge make you feel good?

It should, because America's news media and largest periodicals don't 
have it. They work by the T&P (trust and parrot) method.  They may 
differ in whom to trust and parrot; but they share a common inability 
to evaluate. They will find two opposing viewpoints and manufacture a 
controversy; "for they think objectivity lies halfway between the 
truth and a lie" (or worse, between two lies). 

In the Three Mile Island episode, Access to Energy pointed out at the 
time that the accident would cost more than one life per week: not from 
any radiation, but in the fuel cycle of the substitute power, mostly 
coal-fired, that had to be brought in to replace the safer and 
healthier way of generating electric power - nuclear power.

In the Chernobyl accident, too, we pointed out that in its short life 
of 25 months, Chernobyl Unit 4 saved more lives from coal-fired 
pollution than it took, or will ever take, by radiation. And we gave 
the reasons why the Soviets will not even bother to dilute contaminated 
wheat with grain from elsewhere. "A little cesium and strontium will 
give the Russians a more varied diet; for like Markey, Solarz, 
Schroeder and the other antinuclear breast beaters in Congress, the 
Soviets care only about visible deaths."

But Access to Energy is not just about nuclear energy (which is merely 
a very blatant target of superstition mongering). It is about the truth 
and how to arrive at it in scientific fields.

Access to Energy readers know now, as others will find out in years to 
come, why the Ozone Depletion panic is little more than a hoax: they 
know why the layers in the high atmosphere are self-healing, why 
chlorine reaching the stratosphere is unlikely to come from manmade 
sources, why such chemically induced changes are laughably small 
compared with the ozone layer's natural variations with latitude and 
season, and why the "ozone hole" (a partial reduction of ozone 
concentration for 6 weeks in the antarctic fall) is more pronounced in 
the Antarctic, far from most CFC consumers, than in the Arctic, which 
is much closer to the bulk of the world's industry. The world's 
industry produces some 750,000 tons of chlorine in CFCs per year. The 
volcano Mt. Erebus (have you ever heard of it?  and why not?) in the 
Antarctic (Ross island, Ross Sea) puts out 1,000 tons of chlorine every 
day.

Access to Energy readers also know more about Global Warming than those 
who gobble up the media bunk. Yes, the carbon dioxide content of the 
atmosphere is increasing. But readers know that the link between CO2 
and global temperature is flatly contradicted by the historic record. 
They know why the world data claiming a temperature increase over the 
past 150 years are inaccurate, why renowned climatologists (whom you 
never see on the TV screen) believe the average temperature has not 
changed, and that it has decreased over the last decade. 

Our readers know about rival theories to the greenhouse. And they know 
that if the greenhouse theory were correct in spite of its poor 
experimental record, higher temperatures would lead to more 
evaporation, more clouds, and less solar energy influx, and hence to a 
cooling of the atmosphere before equilibrium is re-established. To 
those who fret that we have no right to wait until we know all the 
data, and that we should start with countermeasures to the imminent 
threat now, Access to Energy readers coolly reply, "the threat of 
warming or of cooling?"

In all other cases of irrational panic, Access to Energy gives reasons, 
not parroted hunches, for its conclusions; and it tells you where you 
can check them independently.

If you think these reasons are unimportant compared with the political 
need of distributing research grants and humoring the sham 
environmentalists, support the efforts of the EPA and the State 
Department to ban "ozone-destroying" chemicals. If you think 
corporations can be taxed without passing the tax to the consumer, join 
Ralph Nader in soaking the rich.

If you are looking for somebody to trust and parrot, get your opinions 
ready-made from the network newscasters and newspaper analysts, who are 
mostly trusting and parroting each other.

But if you want to form an opinion by rational conclusion from measured 
data, subscribe to Access to Energy.

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Access to Energy is a pro-science, pro-technology, pro-free enterprise 
monthly newsletter packed with information and comment on science, 
technology and energy - and on those who would restrict your access to 
it. It gives you answers based on facts with which to dispel myths. 
Access to Energy is now in its 21st year. Well before the Arab oil 
embargo in 1973, Access to Energy pointed out the folly of having US 
energy sources controlled by medieval sheikdoms.

In 1980, amidst Carter's confusion about the "energy crisis," it 
reported on the coming oil glut.   

Access to Energy was the only voice in the country pointing to the dead 
of Three Mile Island: for six years, one person a week was dying from 
the effects of the substitute power that had to be brought in to 
replace the far safer power from nuclear reactors. Access to Energy 
explains the true nature of nuclear wastes: minute in quantity, 
temporary in toxicity (in 500 years they are less toxic than the coal 
ash from the same delivered electric energy), the first type of waste 
completely removable from the biosphere, they are a revolution in 
public health.  Fossil-fired wastes amount to an annual one billion 
tons, and some of these wastes are disposed of in people's lungs.

The radioactive dangers of energy conservation via high levels radon 
gas (see below for the benefits of low levels) have only in the last 
few years been given publicity by the media and the government. Access 
to Energy has been writing about them since 1980. Access to Energy 
explains why radiation cannot make food radioactive. It is safer than 
other types of food preservation. 

Access to Energy defends science against superstition outside energy, 
too. It explains why today's genetic engineering takes far smaller 
risks than when, millennia ago, grass was engineered into wheat. 
Ozone layer? Greenhouse? EMFs from power lines and video terminals? In 
short, get Access to Energy, the UNbrainwash.

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subsidies, no dips into taxpayers money. It doesn't theorize about the 
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Review, Conservative Digest, Reason, American Spectator, Policy Review, 
and others), by famous scientists and well known congressmen - but 
above all, by its readers.  

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 - Carbon dioxide is not only not warming up the earth's atmosphere, 
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 - The recent ozone scare over Toronto was caused by unprofessional 
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 the Wall Street Journal recently said of this plan, "Our advice is, 
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