Taylor, Theodore B.
& Charles C. HumpstonePhysicist Theodore B. Taylor has held many posts during his distinguished career which has spanned military
and peaceful uses of nuclear energy, working for safeguards against the abuse of nuclear energy, and the
promotion of solar energy.Charles Cheny Humpstone has served in many posts of government.
All but 1 per cent of the atmosphere is in the first twenty miles above the earth. The ocean's average depth is only 2.5 miles, and their greatest less than seven miles. Compared to the size of the globe they surround, atmosphere and oceans diminish to as faint bloom of color. The Restoration of the Earth, 1973.The primary potential pollutants in the combustion products of fossil fuels are carbon dioxide (CO2), fly ash and other particulates, sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbons, and waste heat. Coal, particularly, contains small quanities of other potentially toxic materials, such as heavy metals. Ibid.
For each step in the food chain, roughly 90% of the original mass is lost. Ibid.
. . . we have learned that irrigation water may contain between two hundred pounds and five tons of salt per acre-foot of water and that, in the absence of adequate drainage, irrigation may add as much as ten tons of salt to an acre of land in a year. Ibid.