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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Well, with coal plants the birds won't fly themselves to death against those blades...
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As opposed to being sucked into jet engines, or battering themselves against glass walls?
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There are a decent amount of wind mills already there. But they weren't allowed to add more because the electric net couldn't have it and those 3 coal plants were already planned and the birds might kill themselves against the blades... They also wanted a "green plant". Same reason for denial as the wind mills (except for the birds, naturally...)
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A "green"
coal plant? That's something of a contradiction in terms.
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What I never understood is how they say we, the consumer, should make our carbon footprint smaller. Do you really think it will make a difference if the big companies don't make theirs smaller? If you see the amount of light, in the dark, just to light up a building... Or to keep a shop lighted to discourage thieves... And the street lights that keep burning at full light all through the night on the highways... (Belgium is the worst in that respect)...
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Oh, it would absolutely make a difference. The question is how
possible it is.
I don't see demand for electric power being stopped or reversed. At most it will be slowed, and I suspect the main factors doing that will be economic, not climate concerns. There's a lot of push over here to reduce demand because power
costs, and adding new generating capacity costs a lot
more.
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Dennis