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To: nightdriver
Water vapor, which is by far the most prevalent of the "greenhouse gases," is released in copious quantities from the nuclear power plants that have cooling towers.

LMFAO!! Are you serious? Steam from cooling towers? And just how much water vapor from cooling towers is introduced into the earth's atmosphere as as percentage of the total water vapor in the atmosphere as compared to the amount introduced from the evaporation of ocean water? Is it 0.00000000000000000001%? You must have a number since you brought it up.

90 posted on 12/22/2002 2:58:23 PM PST by FreedomCalls
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To: FreedomCalls
"And just how much water vapor from cooling towers is introduced into the earth's atmosphere as as percentage of the total water vapor in the atmosphere as compared to the amount introduced from the evaporation of ocean water?"

Please don't misunderstand. My point is refuting the proposition that nuclear plants produce NO greenhouse gases. Water, in whatever atmospheric form, is reported by those who know to be the predominant greenhouse gas in the Earth's atmosphere.

Of course the output of cooling towers is not even a small fraction of what evaporates from the oceans.

105 posted on 12/22/2002 4:53:27 PM PST by nightdriver
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