Question by Stan S: Would you take part in an organized campaign to end new dirty power plants?
Coal, oil, nuclear, building these things when we have the alternatives is just crazy, especially considering how damaged our climate is already with the level of CO2 emissions, oil spills, mining pollution, contaminated water and soil, and the radiation from chernoybl and three mile island and who knows what little leaks people don’t even know about from unsafe nuclear waste storage. And yet there all either being built or plans have been made to build many more of them. If we got these options for future power production off the table it would explode the green clean energy economy and would get those companies that are planning on building these incredibly foolish and destructive power plants to build green ones instead. Anyone else feel the same way? How could the internet be used to successfully stop these foolhardy dirty power plants from being built? Have people started already and I just don’t have the right links? If you know any your more then invited to post them!
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Answer by Klaatu
No.
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Not only no, HELL NO.
There is no conclusive evidence to suggest humans cause global warming. Exactly what kind of GREEN power plants do you suggest we build instead? Solar panels have high levels of toxic chemicals, wind farms are phenomenally expensive, ugly, produce little reliable energy, and are harmful to the environment to erect. I do like dams, then I can go boating more often!!
I know in my community we turned down the cheap power from a new coal power plant and instead we invested in a plant that produces methane from farm waste. In our community we had the an alternative to coal. I also know that many communities cannot produce wind or hydro power without a huge environmental impact. For them nuclear maybe the best non CO2 producing source of power. I know you use the example of Chernoybl but you probably don’t understand that used responsibly nuclear can be a safe way to produce power.
Heh. What makes you think that I haven’t ALREADY been taking part in large-scale, organized campaigns?
I tend to agree with you wholeheartedly. If we required industry to completely pay for all the by-products of their work, many of the apparently ‘cheap’ energy sources would go out of business! They are only inexpensive because they make other people pay for the problems they create!
Nuclear power may be the WORST offender – we still have nuclear waste generated in the first Manhattan Project experiments sixty years ago, and no place to keep it! Most of it is projected to last for at least hundreds – if not thousands – of years.
There are lots of ways to hook up to what’s going on in you’re interested. For example, even if you don’t agree with their agenda, the guys in the link below often can connect you with the many environmental movements that are currently ongoing.
Good luck! Peace.
Yes, and I all ready have.
The Internet is a great way of connecting people for global warming we can do the same things as the presidential candidates are doing and raise awareness of global warming. With the Internet we can also show how many people care about this issue and give the politics a way to stop it.
A website I joined was stopglobalwarming.org and gp.org
wait, wasn’t there already kind of a group that got together to reduce emissions into the air from power plants? Isn’t it called Congress? Title IV of the Clean Air Amendments Acts called for a reduction of SO2 and CO2. One of the main things that I can extrapolate from these acts are that the newer power plants have it harder because they are not allotted as much emission credits as older companies. When they build these newer plants, technologies are being built in that capture harmful chemicals from entering the air. (scrubbers).
People always like to do stuff that would help the environment, but no one does. A house that is built “green” could be self sufficient using solar panels (but no one is willing to spend 20, 000+ to help the environment). On a large scale, we do not have the technology. It would cost the companies too much money, so they would pass the cost down to the consumer. People would not be able to heat their homes or have electricity.
NO!
Will your organization cover the extra cost of my electicity from these uneconomic alternatives you are promoting?