Here's a very recent article on the power plant: http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/number-one-co2-emitter-northeast-brayton-point-power-station.html
It's a tough call. Nuclear can be catastrophically bad if all goes wrong, whereas fossil fuel slowly pollutes the environment. I appreciate your point Bob, I just disagree with the "we" part. Who's "we"? The electorate that only seems to want lower prices and taxes or the corporations making all the money off the status quo? My point is that "we" are doing exactly what most of "we" want. On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > None of those things are good, Dan. Electricity is great. Wouldn't it be > nice to try and get electricity without them? > > The status quo is something that we can change. We can make things better > for ourselves if we try, and if we put a bit of money and research into it. > It might not happen in our generation, but that's no reason to accept things > the way they are, or to believe everything that the vested interests tell > us. > > The celebrity physicist Brian Cox recently pointed out on the BBC that "the > UK has spent more on saving banks in a year than it has on science since > Jesus, and look what we did with that - we invented the industrial world". > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18736011> > > I have no doubt that the figures for the USA and the rest of the world are > similar. > > If we put just a little bit more of the money into researching alternatives > to the bad energy stuff, perhaps we could have electricity without, or with > significantly reduced, risk and actual environmental destruction. > > Here are some more cloud factories: > <http://www.web-options.com/Pick2007/content/_6025459_large.html> > > B > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Daniel J. Matyola >> Sent: 12 August 2012 18:55 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Peso: The White Towers >> >> Frank, you don't like nuclear energy, you don't like coal, I'm sure you >> don't like frakking, or oil pipelines. I guess you don't like >> electricity either. >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Ah, well, my comment in the previous post about those things being >> "scary" was because I thought it was a nuclear plant. >> > >> > Not that coal is ideal but if one believes the current propaganda it >> can actually be quite clean these days. I think I'd prefer fossil fuel >> to nuclear. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > frank >> > >> > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." >> > -- Christopher Hitchens >> > >> > --- Original Message --- >> > >> > From: Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> >> > Sent: August 11, 2012 8/11/12 >> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: Peso: The White Towers >> > >> > Nope. Fall River, Mass. That's a coal-fired power plant. The hot >> > water they were releasing into the river was harming the fish, so >> they >> > built cooling towers like aNuclear plant. It's essentially a >> > self-contained system. As funny as it is, those towers make the >> plant >> > a bit more green. >> > >> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Walter Hamler >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is that Three Mile Is, PA ? >> >> >> >> Walt >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Steven Desjardins >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I went to my hometown last week to visit my family. 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