Card C00217

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Afford:

"I've been fighting-- many of us have-- to stop sulphur going
into the sky. The Edison electric generating stations all
around the country are bad culprits about this. As you fly
over the different cities you see smog and you look where it
comes from and a dozen chimneys provide the whole darn thing,
primarily Edison chimneys. I was the speaker three weeks ago
in Hartford at the National Edison Institute of America, all
the executives... The host was one of the large engineering
manufacturers of boiler equipment. And while talking with
engineers and research men I found that the equipment exists
and is highly perfected to take all the sulphur out. The cost
it would add to the production of electricity would be only
thirty percent and you'd have no fumes in the sky.
"Thirty percent?"
"Yes, practically nothing.
"Isn't that kind of high?" I ask.
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Fuller has been looking out toward the bay. But at this he
snaps around, claps his hands together sharply, and glares at me.
Cite Rasa Gustaitis in WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY) p.154, Feb'73
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