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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Half of the heat in the world comes form radioactive decay form deep in the earth. This is the most ignored source of heat.
8 posted on 06/04/2012 10:37:38 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: mountainlion
Radon : a chemical element with the atomic number 86, and is represented by the symbol Rn. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium or thorium. Its most stable isotope, 222Rn, has a half-life of 3.8 days.

Ain't nothing humans or the environmentalist can do about it, it happens naturally.
32 posted on 06/04/2012 6:25:44 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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