At some point, enough freedoms are lost that it’s time for another revolution........actually, we have less freedom and more taxes now than the early colonists did when they started what birthed this nation.
Guess what? From the 1700’s well into the 1900’s, everyone heated with either wood or coal......
If this isn’t a site for a wind farm, I don’t know what is!
If the downdraft, which keeps the ‘pollution’ in the valley, is THAT STRONG, then why not harness it? Just tip the blades in the opposite direction!
Hells Bells! I’ve flown into Mexico City a dozen times - EXACT SAME problem there, but I don’t see any wind farms harvesting all of that downdraft!
Instead of p*ssing off the Kennedy Crime Family with blades that obscure THEIR Ocean View, why not find EVERY valley on the planet that has a downdraft and harvest electricity from there?
But, I’m just an uneducated sap who has NEVER seen how a windmill works...or DOESN’T...on the farm. *SMIRK*
Guess what? From the 1700’s well into the 1900’s, everyone heated with either wood or coal...…
While not commenting on the freedom aspect, I can say that my mom grew up in Cache Valley when coal was the predominant heating fuel. In winter the snow was covered by soot during the inversions. Terrible air quality. It has gotten much better as most people have switched to gas, although it can still get bad due to auto exhaust.
“Guess what? From the 1700’s well into the 1900’s, everyone heated with either wood or coal......”
Sure did, my mom cooked many a meal on a wood burning stove when we lived up in the Umatilla National forest, dad manned a tower and fought fires. We eventually moved to Weston Ore and the event in the article would happen there every year during the winter. When you came through the pass dropping into town it was covered in a smoky haze. Other than a constant smell of smoke we never paid much attention to it. Health wise it didn’t seem to bother us either, all of us kids are well over 60, mom passed at 87 and dad turns 94 this September.
During that time describe wood was the only source of energy, we cooked with it, heated with it and built with it. A community would be established and the available wood would immediately start to get farther and farther from town. Wood haulers would travel quite a ways from town to cut and haul back to town until that source was gone and them go find another. Wood was consumed at an astounding rate. Thank God we discovered oil, gas and coal!