[Lurker]

Just build a nuke plant and be done with it.

L

[enviros_kill]

My feelings exactly. More backround on the windmill folly (only reason they're getting built is because our tax dollars subsidizing them via stupid laws):

Check out the windmill carnage here (toppled windmills and bird carcasses)
Horrors of wind power
http://www.matsuvalleynews.com/wind1.html

Wind farm 'hits eagle numbers'
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5108666.stm
Wind farm turbine blades are killing a key population of Europe's largest bird of prey, UK wildlife campaigners warn.

Wind turbines taking toll on birds of prey
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-04-windmills-usat_x.htm

Group's lawsuit over bird deaths gets green light
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346697/posts

Nuclear vs. Wind, Part I
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/03/nuclear-vs-wind-part-i.html

Wind Farms Provide Negligible Useful Electricity - White Paper
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20060331_wind.pdf
SUMMARY: wind farms for power generation can only provide negligible electricity to grid supply systems, make no significant reduction in pollution, cause significant environmental damage, increase the costs of electricity and create risks of power failures

Only reason these poodle power devices are being erected is stupid politicians succumbing to greenie pressure and an ill informed electorate. Windmills are feel good devices that will topple in hurricanes, require baseload (fossil and nuclear backups) and visually pollute large sections of beautiful landscape due to their low energy density per sq mile compared to fossil and nuke.

[familyop]

"Just build a nuke plant and be done with it."

And be sure to build it close and directly upwind from the homes of a bunch of anti-property-rights busybodies.

[backhoe]

Just build a nuke plant and be done with it.

Lurker, two cites over to the west of us is Plant McManus- a nuclear power plant.

For the last thirty years, all it's done is produce clean, cheap electricity.

By contrast, the two chemical plants in town kill one or two workers each, every year. Guess which of these I would choose to work at, given a choice?

The "whadda we gonna do with THE NUCLEAR WASTE?" issue is a red herring-- boob-bait intended to distract the easily duped into chattering endlessly about a non-problem... you just recycle the stuff, as many other nations have done for decades.

Jimmy Carter outlawed it here, that's the only reason we aren't doing it now. Yes, stupid Executive Orders, and Laws, seem to live forever.

[thinking]

yes....if we had gone Nuke 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess, but the reactionary Greenies, controlled the politics of the time...

[bray]

1 nuclear power plant will cleanly replace 10,000 windmills. So are royalties only 30% of $12,000?

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