Coal Cares!!

[Mikey]

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[Mikey]

Some pretty funny shit there, while it lasts.

Coal power is solar power.
That's because millions of years ago, before coal began to form from decaying organic matter, the sun provided the energy that organic matter required to grow and die.



Wind Kills
Wind turbines can kill up to 70,000 birds per year, or 4.27 birds per turbine per year. Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13,000 people per year.

Solar Burns
In just 30 minutes, a human being absorbs 2.5 million joules of energy from the sun—enough, for most people, to cause sunburn.

[OCmike]

The problem with wind turbines isn't that they kill birds in general, it's that they kill golden eagles, whooping cranes, condors and other endangered slow-flying birds of prey.

[Mikey]

The problem with wind turbines isn't that they kill birds in general, it's that they kill golden eagles, whooping cranes, condors and other endangered slow-flying birds of prey.

You're really only scratching the surface here.

Wind

Wind technology is another “alternative” wild card. Every single year, gargantuan wind turbines kill literally thousands of birds—especially when the turbines are located in the middle of migration paths. Exploding bats are also a growing problem, as vibrations from turbines causes the rodents’ lungs to burst apart in mid-flight.

Animals aren’t wind’s only victims. Violently spinning turbine blades are a potential decapitation hazard for curious passers-by who climb up the ladders often installed on the shafts. Also, these high, easy-to-climb structures can be an irresistible temptation for depressives lost in the flatlands where turbines are usually sited, and seeking a means of suicide.

Windmills seem to make it their business to disrupt and destroy any and all panoramic vistas they inhabit. Furthermore, these machines emit a low-pitched, humming sort of white noise that many find distracting, unpleasant, and even maddening. Not wanting to live in stark raving madness the rest of their lives, many residents inevitably turn away from the turbines, leaving behind swaths of empty homes.

But there are also much, much bigger potential problems associated with wind energy. Every science student has heard of the so-called “butterfly effect” from aptly-named “Chaos Theory”: namely, that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in the wilds of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, can set off a massive, community-shattering tornado in Bunker Hill Village, Texas. If, as scientists state, a mere butterfly can cause a tornado so many thousands of miles away, imagine what a hill-full of wind turbines can do.

Actually, a simple calculation shows precisely how much. Suppose a butterfly flapping its wings, producing about 12.5 W of energy, can unleash a tornado producing approximately 100MW of energy. By this measure, a large wind farm—producing 781.5 MW of energy, or the equivalent of approximately 63 million butterflies—could unleash the equivalent of 63 million tornados, or over 6 quadrillion watts of energy. That's still less than one one hundred millionth the energy of an asteroid hitting the earth, but it's nothing to sneeze at, either!




Again, there are risks to any form of energy production, including coal. But the risks associated with coal are well understood, whereas those associated with wind and solar are new, unknown, and multiple. The only reason we don't see more of these consequences is because alternative energy comprises such a tiny proportion of our national energy portfolio.

The potential physical risks of alternative energy, great as they are, pale in comparison to the financial risks. Coal, after all, is well supported and subsidized, directly and via tax breaks. Wind and solar are not; they are in fact the epitome of risky investment. Sustainable, long-term government programs mean safety for all investors. Investing in coal will always be a smart move, especially with well-supported, long-term government subsidies driving down costs, and a near-complete absence of subsidies for so-called "alternative" energies.

[OCmike]

That read like a McCain/Kyl tag-team filibuster.

[Y2K]

The problem with wind turbines isn't that they kill birds in general, it's that they kill golden eagles, whooping cranes, condors and other endangered slow-flying birds of prey.

To hell with the damn birds, why should some dumb ass eagles other various avian carcass matter when you can keep the juice flowing to your shiny new Chevy Volt?

Top of the food chain bitches...

30+ miles per charge
Now thats what were talking about.

[LTS TRN 2]

That read like a McCain/Kyl tag-team filibuster.

Well rack the fuck out of that!

Unbelievable!...are these stooges paid to flood each such palsied forum with robotic damage-control smears and diversions?


Gee, "Mikey," wanna talk the beneficent virtues of fission nuclear power? What? Nothing but tired silence? Oh...well just listen to an hour or so of Sean Hannity and you'll feel all perked up and ready to parrot lots of points and stuff... :?

[BSmack]

The problem with wind turbines isn't that they kill birds in general, it's that they kill golden eagles, whooping cranes, condors and other endangered slow-flying birds of prey.

Not all of them do. But the big ass turbines do. Somewhere Chuckie is laughing.

[War Wagon]

Gee, "Mikey," wanna talk the beneficent virtues of fission nuclear power? What? Nothing but tired silence? Oh...well just listen to an hour or so of Sean Hannity and you'll feel all perked up and ready to parrot lots of points and stuff... :?

If you couldn't see the sarcasm fairly dripping in Mikey's C&P job I'm afraid there's no hope for you son.

[Mikey]

Gee, "Mikey," wanna talk the beneficent virtues of fission nuclear power? What? Nothing but tired silence? Oh...well just listen to an hour or so of Sean Hannity and you'll feel all perked up and ready to parrot lots of points and stuff... :?

If you couldn't see the sarcasm fairly dripping in Mikey's C&P job I'm afraid there's no hope for you son.

I'm now thoroughly convinced that LTS is about as perceptive as a bag of rocks.

Seriously...the butterfly effect? Could anybody with even half a functioning brain read that and actually take it as a serious defense of coal? What a fucking ultra maroon.