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Alternative Energy Confusion
pcnetworx1 writes "New York State is starting to get crunched for electricity. While other states may just say 'pop a couple more coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear power plants down', NY has decided to take the green route. NY State wants to get more power by strategically placing windmill powerplants in upstate NY to help the grid. While getting a dedicated power plant placed on your property for FREE (and being paid $3,000 a year per tower) may sounds good to some Slashdotters, the citizens in upstate NY still need some education in the safety of alternative energy."
More Social Welfare. Unbelievable!
Right. Because we all know that it's the firehose of tax money from rural upstaters that's keeping Manhattan solvent.
It's nonsense. New York City pays more much more in taxes to the state than it gets back in services and the surplus goes to thee poorer, rural areas of upstate New York. You're all nothing more than welfare queens in bib overalls.
Helps what, exactly? Push your personal agenda? I don't want to live in a world where my neighbors get their panties in a wad because I leave the lights on, or worse, think they actually have the right to get in my face about it. Nor do I want to live in a world where people count watts like diet-addicts count calories. I don't want less power, I want *more* power. More power to do whatever I please, whenever I please.
If you're talking about making power so plentiful it goes for pennies on the dollar at todays prices, I'm with you. If you're going to go off on some environmental rant about how we should all live on tiny amounts of power, use solar heaters, and grow organic vegetables in our back yards, then forget that shit - I'm not interested.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
I really hate the shitheads that worry more about their land values than about the world they are leaving behind.
And I really hate the shitheads who think they've got some moral right to tell everyone else what they "should" do with their private property. But there do seem to be a lot of them around lately, all yammering on about their personal agendas, usually telling all and sundry that it's for "the greater good".
They want to have their cute little yards and attractive houses while they ship all the trash they produce off to somewhere else.
Kinda like so-called environmentalists and the logging industry. Let's shut down the logging industry in America - and ship it to the Third World! Excellent fucking idea, that. Hey, so long as it isn't in my back yard....
Grid-tied alternative energy is really good for most people.
Says who? You? Apparently most people don't agree with you, since most people don't give a fuck about alternative energy.
Using alternative power should be a civic responsibility like not commiting crimes and voting.
Not telling other people how to live their lives should be a civic responsibility, like not committing crimes or voting. Minding your own goddamned business would also be nice.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Chernobyl killed 12 people, IIRC.
Anyway, the site that you cite says that the 4000 people estimate is based on bad science.
Also, you might want to consider other industrial disasters. When I was in college, 7 people were killed in a collapse at a local coal fired plant. That's just 5 short of Chernobyl, but nobody cites "Morgantown, WV" when slamming coal as a dangerous power source.