From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: "Bat poop crazy"
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 00:25:21 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Muffler Bearings LLC
On 2025-07-31, Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:24:01 -0400, -hh
><recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>
>>On 7/30/25 08:53, pothead wrote:
>>> On 2025-07-30, Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:51:45 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't see oil wells from my window or when boating.
>>>>> If energy companies want to implement wind turbines, install them
>>>>> in the middle of nowhere.
>>>>
>>>> NIMBY? Quickly followed by, "where's my electricity?"
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>> Install them away from populated areas.
>>
>>Fundamentally less efficient - higher grid losses.
>>
>>That's why nukes were often built as close as they reasonably can get
>>away with to major population centers.
>>
>>
>>> I don't have a problem with electricity, do you?
>>
>>You've also never lived next to a fly ash sludge pond either.
>>Take a gander some time at the delta in cancer incidence rates.
>
> Backyard redecorated.
>
><https://wvpublic.org/story/arts-culture/how-appalachia-became-the-site-of-the-largest-industrial-spill-in-u-s-history-and-what-happened-next/>
I've never lived next to a lithium mine either.
Nor a cobalt mine loaded with children doing the work.
We have come a long way in cleaner fossil fuel production than the 1960's.
--
pothead
"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
Then our choices make us."
-- Anne Frank