I volunteer to move Koalabear's house next to a traditional coal power plant.

[LJ_Reloaded]

Not one of those newfangled ones that evil granola eating liberals forced to reduce their emissions. I'm talking about a Rush Limbaugh-certified smokestacker.

Let him breathe the air and drink from the nearby water supplies, and eat the fish and food produced nearby.

All that's left then is to guess which horrible end will silence his whining about pollution controls for good: death by lung cancer, mental retardation from mercury poisoning, being killed by a flood caused by a "clean coal" containment breach, etc.

 

[ivantheterrible]

the majority of the contaminants of burning coal in a power plant do not fall anywhere near the source. the main danger is nearby disposal of fly ash and the huge mounds of coal exposed to weather that leach poisons into the nearby land and water.

 

[JohnnySavage]

the majority of the contaminants of burning coal in a power plant do not fall anywhere near the source. the main danger is nearby disposal of fly ash and the huge mounds of coal exposed to weather that leach poisons into the nearby land and water.

Bottom ash.

Fly ash goes up the stack and lands down wind.

Some amount of fly ash is caught with bags in the stacks, but it's called "fly ash" because it... flies.

 

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[JohnnySavage]

What do you call a fly without wings?

Fish bait?

 

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[JohnnySavage]

Sometimes I wonder how fish learned worms taste good.

 

[ivantheterrible]

Bottom ash.

Fly ash goes up the stack and lands down wind.

Some amount of fly ash is caught with bags in the stacks, but it's called "fly ash" because it... flies.

gotcha

greenbrier county wv usa has the second highest cancer rate in the state. the closest coal burning plants and chemical factories are 100 and hundreds of miles away. the wind currents just happen to dump the mercury, arsenic, and dioxin right onto the county.
the greenbrier river has a lot of mercury in it. from old closed tanneries. don't eat the fish. and also, fish will hit almost anything. i've caught trout with just a peice of paper on a hook. has nothing to do with "knowing" what something tastes like.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

the main danger is nearby disposal of fly ash and the huge mounds of coal exposed to weather that leach poisons into the nearby land and water.

I mentioned the fly ash disposal part. The mounds of coal falls under "etc".

There's a reason why properties near a coal power plant aren't sold at a premium.

 

[Farrah]

gotcha

greenbrier county wv usa has the second highest cancer rate in the state. the closest coal burning plants and chemical factories are 100 and hundreds of miles away. the wind currents just happen to dump the mercury, arsenic, and dioxin right onto the county.
the greenbrier river has a lot of mercury in it. from old closed tanneries. don't eat the fish. and also, fish will hit almost anything. i've caught trout with just a peice of paper on a hook. has nothing to do with "knowing" what something tastes like.

How did I not know this? I've eaten fish from the Greenbrier River!

 

[bernett69]

our town, and several area towns just said no to nice clean solar farms. what the heck...

if we can't have coal because its dirty. (which it is, not disputing that)

nuclear because its just so dangerous

oil just because

solar because people don't want to look out and see it in the once great farm lands of western Massachusetts. which are not being used as farm lands any more. (all second home owners from NYC. all libs !)

wind because we hate to look at them on the horizon and they knock little birds out of the air

natural gas because that is bad too

we are really running out of options if we ever want to plug our electric cars in.
I'm not say this in a rude ignorant way. just speaking the truth. everyone wants change as long as its somewhere else. that isn't going to cut it any more if we are going to actually do something.

 

[phrodeau]

Hey Le Jerque, maybe your wife's elderly grand-in-laws would prefer having a power plant as a neighbor.

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