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Nah. The soil up here is just fine. In my distant youth, I worked for barley farmers at about 64 degrees N Latitude, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, AK. It's hard, poor-paying work, but it put gas in my car and paid for a portion of my schooling.

Here's an article if you want a few minutes reading.

Looks like the US will beat them to the punch, again. http://www.alaskajournal.com/A...

Far from being fiscally conservative, she raised the Alaska budget.

Yes, to a record $6.6B. But, at the same time, vetoed $231M.

She is rabidly anti-evolution.

This has already been discussed elsewhere in this article's comments. Such a claim will require more corroboration than you have offered.

She supports Ted Stevens.

That would explain why she cancelled his infamous Bridge to Nowhere.

She has no experience.

Yes, she is thin on experience. But, she has more experience in an executive position than both of her opponents, combined.

In the spirit of the season, Reindeer Rendering.

Sorry.

That's simple; you just never let it get cold.

That's considerably easier to say than do when the average temperature ranges from -2F to -18F (-19C to -28C) in January. It really wouldn't take long to gel the diesel -- you can insulate, but only to a certain point (best bet, obviously, is to stick the tanks in the ground, but we're talking about permafrost here, giving you a base temperature of 0C/32F in any case).

Another thing that occurs to me; if they're on the Yukon river, what stops them from using hydropower?

The river freezes solid up to 5 feet thick during winter. Even if you could solve that issue, you'd have to figure out where to flood up river and build a dam that could feed the turbines off the bottom running water while dealing with the silt issues.

Oh, and Galena, AK does use wind power. Wind power is apparantly reasonably new to Alaska for a variety of reasons. Read this, this, and this (wind power tables for the US) for more info. But it's hardly enough power. It's also telling that while diesel generated power is 2-3x the generation cost in Galena as it is in Anchorage (and vastly higher than it is pretty much anywhere else -- there are no roads that lead to Galena), it's still the most cost effective way of power generation -- wind is displacing it slowly though, but wind power generation has come down in cost and up in efficiency considerably in recent years.

Oh, and to top it all off -- Galena appears to be rather environmentally conscious, even for Alaska. They've banned plastic bags and have other anti-pollution statutes on the books there.

That's simple; you just never let it get cold.

That's considerably easier to say than do when the average temperature ranges from -2F to -18F (-19C to -28C) in January. It really wouldn't take long to gel the diesel -- you can insulate, but only to a certain point (best bet, obviously, is to stick the tanks in the ground, but we're talking about permafrost here, giving you a base temperature of 0C/32F in any case).

Another thing that occurs to me; if they're on the Yukon river, what stops them from using hydropower?

The river freezes solid up to 5 feet thick during winter. Even if you could solve that issue, you'd have to figure out where to flood up river and build a dam that could feed the turbines off the bottom running water while dealing with the silt issues.

Oh, and Galena, AK does use wind power. Wind power is apparantly reasonably new to Alaska for a variety of reasons. Read this, this, and this (wind power tables for the US) for more info. But it's hardly enough power. It's also telling that while diesel generated power is 2-3x the generation cost in Galena as it is in Anchorage (and vastly higher than it is pretty much anywhere else -- there are no roads that lead to Galena), it's still the most cost effective way of power generation -- wind is displacing it slowly though, but wind power generation has come down in cost and up in efficiency considerably in recent years.

Oh, and to top it all off -- Galena appears to be rather environmentally conscious, even for Alaska. They've banned plastic bags and have other anti-pollution statutes on the books there.