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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I usually post something (or give him a link to ignore) and then bust him for not reading it. Like I just did with you. But doing the busting first and then posting stuff adds an interesting twist.
That page you linked to says:
- TVA has built the first commercial wind-powered turbines in the southeastern U.S. on Buffalo Mountain in Anderson County, Tennessee. Solar generation sites are located in the service areas of participating public power companies. And methane gas is providing power at Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis, where a methane waste by-product from the city’s wastewater treatment plant is used for co-firing.
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So because i shit bigger than Icantread I'm already doing more?
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I suppose it's possible that all of those plants will be down at once, and that Gore will then be responsible for the release of more carbon into the atmosphere. But if the plants are all down two weeks a year, and Gore uses twenty times as much electricity as the next guy, then he's still releasing less carbon than his neighbor, and paying a lot more to get there.
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he's not getting any particular electricity. he is subsidizing the creation of some wind turbines say, but his actual power may be coal. and his goal is to REDUCE coal, not build more wind turbines. if building more wind turbines lets us eliminate coal, god bless, but if wind turbines only let us light up our 80 room mansions, what's the point.
It's like right now all this development of hybrid cars, so now our SUVs get 30-35 MPG. Everyone smiling driving around saving the world in their hybrids- but the thing is normal compacts got that milage in 1980. All that effort only lets us pollute as much, but in bigger cars.
If we really fucked the world up we have to correct, and even reverse.
I'm done on this one.
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