Re: Darn you, Polly Esther

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:04:41 -0000, amy <AEStaley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 16, 5:50 pm, Debra <debnbi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:30:00 GMT, Taria <tariawils...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That's awful. That can't be good for your lungs.
Yikes!
TAria

That's life. Everybody wants electricity and it's gotta be made
somewhere and the coal is closer to us than oil. The "supposedly
clean running" plants think they are fooling everybody because they
filter the smoke all day, then vent the filters into the air at night.
You can hear the air pressure used to vent the filters around 3 am,
even if you are more than 5 miles away. Since air quality samples are
taken during the day the plants look like they are following all
government emissions guidelines but I doubt they would pass the those
tests if the samples were taken in the wee hours of the morning.

Sadly, I can no longer walk through wet grass in white shoes--the toes
will turn black from the coal dust. Thankfully, I don't live next to
the train tracks. At least there isn't coal dust inside my home.
Debra in VA
See my quilts athttp://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere

we get most of our electricity from Niagara Falls. some wind power
too. the coal dust -that's aweful, and cant be good for the
environment or you.
i love sheets on the line. it's probably the one luxury i'll miss when
my house sells and i have to go to an apartment.
amy

Alas, if you hae been reading the papers you will have seen that they
are reducing the hydroE rations across the boards. They say it is
because the water level in the lakes is down.

Locally we have what is supposed to be one of the cleanest coal plants
in the country. They are planning a new kind of turbine and an
experimental CO2 sequestration system.
http://www.jamestownbpu.com/electric/cleancoal.php

We also have some of the cheapest electric in the country. I expect
that is because it is municipal rather than commercial.

NightMist
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the
majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with
the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne
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