Comments on: Coal Ash Sludge http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:28:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dunnage http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-136766 dunnage Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:45:51 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-136766 No need to define Insane, we're talking tradition. Fly Ash is amazing in a cement mix -- fine enough to fill spaces in concrete yielding density and strength. So the sludge must be amazing -- give us wonderful new things if we just take the time to check it out. You know, like Defense Spending, things we would never thought of if we hadn't a trillion $ to spend. Tradition: Bhopal, Agent Orange, Strip Mining, Nuke waste, Cluster Bombs. You know how they figured out how to get the lead out of gasoline? They discovered if you didn't add any lead, it didn't have lead content. Sludge Wrestling. No need to define Insane, we’re talking tradition. Fly Ash is amazing in a cement mix — fine enough to fill spaces in concrete yielding density and strength. So the sludge must be amazing — give us wonderful new things if we just take the time to check it out. You know, like Defense Spending, things we would never thought of if we hadn’t a trillion $ to spend.

Tradition: Bhopal, Agent Orange, Strip Mining, Nuke waste, Cluster Bombs. You know how they figured out how to get the lead out of gasoline? They discovered if you didn’t add any lead, it didn’t have lead content.

Sludge Wrestling.

]]> By: Jim Letourneau http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-136152 Jim Letourneau Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:31:13 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-136152 Define insane...How does this compare to Three Mile Island? Define insane…How does this compare to Three Mile Island?

]]> By: How the Common Man Sees It http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-135996 How the Common Man Sees It Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:42:47 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-135996 Can't the Fed solve this problem too? Maybe if they print enough money it will absorb the sludge Can’t the Fed solve this problem too?

Maybe if they print enough money it will absorb the sludge

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-135971 Mark E Hoffer Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:15:03 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-135971 I guess those Regulations did a lot of good... when are 'spokespeep' going to bear Personal liability for s*it they spew? on a related note, Gov't directed, Taxpayer purchased, VNRs have announced that Mercury in vaccines is Good for you--contra to countless, continuing, PSAs warning against heavy Fish intake due to the cummulative toxicity of, saidsame, Mercury. As Murrow said: "Goodnight, and Good Luck~" I guess those Regulations did a lot of good…

when are ’spokespeep’ going to bear Personal liability for s*it they spew?

on a related note, Gov’t directed, Taxpayer purchased, VNRs have announced that Mercury in vaccines is Good for you–contra to countless, continuing, PSAs warning against heavy Fish intake due to the cummulative toxicity of, saidsame, Mercury.

As Murrow said: “Goodnight, and Good Luck~”

]]> By: Bill in SF http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-135966 Bill in SF Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:36 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-135966 Just heard this reported on NPR. The authorities said: You are in no danger as long as you do not eat the sludge. So... My mantra for 2009 is: DON'T EAT THE SLUDGE!!! Just heard this reported on NPR. The authorities said: You are in no danger as long as you do not eat the sludge.

So… My mantra for 2009 is:

DON’T EAT THE SLUDGE!!!

]]> By: dsimmons http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/coal-ash-sludge/comment-page-1/#comment-135937 dsimmons Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:13:16 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=14041#comment-135937 The spill has since been updated from 1.7 to 5.4 million cubic yards. Quotes like this typify the complete lack of social responsibility of an organization in the U.S. "“Most of that material is inert,” said Gilbert Francis Jr., a spokesman for the authority. “It does have some heavy metals within it, but it’s not toxic or anything.”' drive me up the walls. I refuse to accept this kind of bullshit. The spill has since been updated from 1.7 to 5.4 million cubic yards.

Quotes like this typify the complete lack of social responsibility of an organization in the U.S.

““Most of that material is inert,” said Gilbert Francis Jr., a spokesman for the authority. “It does have some heavy metals within it, but it’s not toxic or anything.”’ drive me up the walls.

I refuse to accept this kind of bullshit.

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