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 JH>> I have a problem because most of those who protest nuclear power don't
 JH>> have a clue about how it works.  Then there's the people who are
 JH>> using this Japanese problem to do their best to kill nuclear power
 JH>> over here.  It isn't about anything but political power, and keeping
 JH>> their bootheels on the necks of the average joes.

 Have you been checked for paranoia recently? Is everyone who
 disagrees with you trying to keep his bootheel on your neck?

 BA> A lot of those protesting nuclear power also protest
 BA> against ordinary coal-fired
 BA> power plants.  IMO those people should be identified and
 BA> then have their power shut off.

 Of course you will never conceede they just might be right. Coal
 power I do believe should be phased out. Nuclear power needs new
 technology, and to be much safer and cleaner. Fortunately new
 technology is available. What does need to be done is to find
 out how many of those bad designs are in use and replace them.

 BTW, if nuclear power is so safe, why does the nuclear industry
 get a limit on their liability?

 BA> While wind generators (supposedly) don't pollute one gets
 BA> real tired of looking at
 BA> them.

 ...

 Looking at them doesn't bother me, but a lot of the people who
 live next to them complain about their noise vibration and
 effects on light.

 BA> Note that years ago a LOT of wind generators were built in
 BA> the SF Bay area near the Altamont Pass (the old US-50 went
 BA> through it on the way from Oakland to
 BA> Stockton - and points east ).  Environmentalists are
 BA> forcing the power companies to
 BA> take them out - apparently a lot of birds were/are being
 BA> killed by those generators.

 A bit of googling shows they are not being shut down, but
 replaced by newer and more efficent generators. The new ones
 produce 10 times as much power as the old ones, with a much
 smaller bird kill and count. The birds are not just crows and
 pidgeons, but hawks and golden eagles. Most people would support
 protecting them. The new generators do have lower bird kills.

 One reason for the lower bird kills is that the new generators
 sit several times above the height of the old ones. The raptors
 hunt low to the ground.

 And they turn slower so they are less noisey and easier for
 birds to avoid.

 BA> Again, those protestors should be unplugged.



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