Well, it is out there, Archimedes Plutonium on the front page and full
feature news article in the
South Dakota Argus Leader. I asked the writer if I could proofread the
story before published but he
told it was against policy. I asked because I know the writer is not a
scientist himself and a story
on a scientist would be laden with error. Journalists who do not have
a scientific background are prone
to many mistakes of fact.
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Archimedes Plutonium, and he calls himself the King of All
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It is a shame that in journalism schools across the world they do not
demand a course in "logic"
in order to graduate and is to blame for what I feel is modern day
deterioration of journalism quality.
Do not get me wrong, I rather have this story "out there" laden with
error, rather than not have a
story.
This story of me follows from my recent letter to the editor of Argus
Leader pointing out the illogic
of building a oil refinery in South Dakota, where it wastes 29,000
barrels of oil each and every
day that it produces 400,000 barrels of oil when if the refinery were
built in Canada near the
tar-sands and railroad haul the finished product into the USA would
not waste 29,000 barrels of
oil. So it is obvious to any future reader or present day reader that
the politicians who pushed through
the oil refinery are trying to smear campaign discredit Archimedes
Plutonium, by calling him crackpot
and looking for anything that can label AP in a bad light.
I did the math and physics on TransCanada and Hyperion and Conoco
Phillips plan of piping tar sands
through farm fields and then oil refinery in South Dakota. My math
shows a wasting of 29,000 barrels every
day and many ruined farmfields with needless pipelines. Trouble is
that Governor Mike Rounds has
not done the math. Nor has Senator Thune done the math. They tout how
much money people will make
but do not tell you how much dirty air and water will exist for these
communities. Everyone is expected
to fix Global Warming and to not burn fuel heedlessly. Yet by building
oil refineries far away from the
tar sands wastes up to 10% of all the tar sands oil and accelerates
Global Warming.
To emit into the air 29,000 barrels that never needed to be emitted if
the refineries were built in Canada
next to the tar sands and to cut open thousands of farmers land to lay
needless pipelines is a question
that Governor Rounds and Senator Thune have not addressed.
I have addressed them. I have done the math. And instead of Mr. Rounds
or Mr. Thune doing the math
they unleash newsre****ters to make Mr. Archimedes Plutonium look like
a kook.
The first paragraph of the Argus Leader story says I wear a "bee
suit". This is false. I do not own a
bee suit. I never wore a bee suit in my life. I do own mosquito
netting, much like what fisherman
wear when bothered by mosquitos. When I mow in tall grass or work near
woods I wear mosquito
netting over my T-****rt.
Have any of you ever experienced a utility bill in computer error and
it keeps mailing you the same bill,
even though the office said it will stop, and you keep getting the
bill and even penalty notices. Computer
mistakes that frustrate you. Well this is what sloppy journalism does
to people in stories. The newspaper
now has unleashed a falsihood about Archimedes Plutonium, in which
people all over the world will
envision AP wearing a bee-suit, and say to themselves-- what a nut.
That is exactly what the story about AP was designed to illicit from
the reading public. The man who
stood up to Governor Rounds and Senator Thune by telling them it makes
no sense to build oil
refineries in South Dakota because it emits 29,000 barrels more of air
pollution that excerbates Global
Warming.
So they seek their attack dogs on AP by making him look like a nut who
wears a "bee suit" when
in fact I never wore a bee suit.
Politicians do these dirty tricks as they ally themselves with
newsre****ters, but I simply asked all along:
Please, Mr. Rounds, please Mr. Thune what numbers do you get when you
figure out the cost of refining
up there in Canada and then railroad hauling versus ruined farmfields
with buried pipelines and refining
in South Dakota.
Instead of making Archimedes Plutonium look like a nut and kook, why
not just give us your math
computations.
Certainly, Mr. Rounds and Mr. Thune expect every South Dakotan and
every Iowan and every Nebraskan
to switch to energy saving light bulbs and to drive less to save on
Global Warming. But when it comes
to really saving on Global Warming, why is Mr. Rounds and Mr. Thune
advocating a oil refinery that will
add 29,000 barrels of oil each and every day into the air, heedlessly.
Do they advocate this because
they want to see some obese Texans fill their pocketbooks with
millions of dollars while South Dakotans
fill their lungs with dirty air and fill their lands with unneeded
pipelines?
So I, as a scientist, did the math, did the computing did the
re****ting of the waste. Do I deserve to be
attacked in the newspaper as some sort of nut or kook or crackpot?
The math and physics and science of oil refinery is not debatable, it
is there as simple pure facts. If you
want to increase Global Warming you build the refineries in South
Dakota and you waste 29,000 barrels
a day. You ruin thousands of farmlands. In fact you ruin a
agricultural region where you have a oil refinery.
South Dakota was never meant to have oil refineries, for it never had
any oil. Farming is essential, so
why replace farming for oil refining. Our farming ancestors, if they
could rise from the dead, would certainly
be shaking their heads to see us trading for something unnatural as
oil refineries in a land that belongs
to farming.
What is the next project for Mr. Rounds? Since he wants to bring oil
refineries to land that belongs to
farming, how about bringing Orange groves to Pierre South Dakota.
Growing citrus in South Dakota
makes as much sense as what Mr. Rounds wants oil refining in South
Dakota.
So the Argus Leader has done a huge disfavor to Archimedes Plutonium,
like those utility bills that the
computer endlessly prints out. That can I live down or live up to
correcting the mistake of "bee suit"?
Journalism allows for corrections of errors, but they seldom correct
the damage done. So wherever AP
goes, will people want to know about "bee suits"
The mistake journalism did in New Hamp****re was to saddle AP with a
false nickname-- Arky.
So this is a huge problem in journalism, where it saddles innocent
people with falsehoods, and because
of the nature of not being able to correct those errors of the
newspapers, those errors often outlive the
individual.
That is why Internet Publi****ng may be far better than the old
journalism newspapers, because if it were
adequately set up, I could put a notice on the story that the "bee
suit" is false and they could make it
disappear from the Internet posted Argus Leader story.
A bee suit is very much different from a mosquito jacket worn by
fisherman and which I wear often in
summer time, since I do not want to catch West Nile virus.
So, is this another error that AP now must live down or live up.
Archimedes Plutonium
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