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If horses and horse-drawn transport were heavily taxed, and cars with internal combustion engines were threatening this government revenue, Mark Z. Jacobson would be one of the sober, serious, seemingly respectable scientists pointing out a cost of a mass switch to piston-and-cylinder engines that must be counted: proliferation of bullet-in-cylinder *guns*. The thermodynamic link is, after all, undeniable.
This we know, because in counting the carbon-emission cost of nuclear power, he insisted on including carbon from cities that, he seems to think, will someday be ignited by nuclear weapons that -- unlike any the world has seen -- will exist only because of nuclear power.
So it is not surprising that he has taken part in a study that finds the highest possible theoretical toll of Fukushima radiation (and so is most advantageous to fossil fuel tax revenue interests, the revenue interests that correspond to the horsey revenue interests in the analogy I began with).
Much larger death tolls must be occurring, if the one he sees is real, from unnecessary medical X-raying, and our failure to remove all potassium-40 from our diets. (We could set up isotope separation plants for this; potassium-39 and potassium-41 are nonradioactive,)
