Lots of wind up there on Gore Mountain...stored in a lock box.
OK, then the power company needs to announce that because of objections, the wind turbines will not be built. Instead, a new nuclear power plant will be constructed to meet the need, thanks to the environmentalists' objections.
Then watch them either contort themselves into little logical pretzels to object against it, or kill themselves.
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27 megs ? Ten kids on ten-speed bikes produce that much...
Maybe his raisin eating wife...
The same fight is going on here in VT. The landowners stand to make some bucks. The envirowhackos claim the "view".
Gore mountin'?
There is a problem. A wind farm in WV is currently the focus of a study which has found large numbers of bats being killed by the wind turbines.
So much wasted hot air.
Ok, so don't use wind turbines. There has to be another way to harvest electricity from all that hot air on Gore Mountain.
While there is a place for wind and hydro power on a small scale on a community by community basis, there is only one alternative (not oil / coal based) energy source that is practical on a national scale, nuclear. Others are being developed but nothing is ready to implement on a grand scale.
'Putting these towers up will not prevent the construction of a single coal-fired power plant, nor will it force a coal plant to close.'
Truth, we need to build clean burn coal plants and nuclear plants to address our energy needs. The alternative stuff and conserving are not effective for a growing economy.
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all.
We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, as I don't want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can't talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.
And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved.
Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them. - Michael Crichton, author of “Jurassic Park”
Heck, they could put one up in my backyard if I could get free electricity.
If we built 100 new nuke plants, 20 new refineries, and allowed drilling in the Rockies and off Florida, all this stupid talk of 55 mph and "conservation" would evaporate, and we would never need another drop of foreign oil or LNG.
East Coast Prius-driving Kerry Liberals say, "No stinking wind turbines in our back yard!"
Yeah good luck,
They won't even let you put small cell phone towers on any of the mountains in the Adirondacks, so forget about any wind turbines.