It boils down to effeciency. We need real solutions to our energy problems such as coal or nuke plants. We don't need idiot reporters trying to dictate national energy solutions based on irrational wishful thinking.

Only a few people will ever notice a power plant there.

How about China opening a coal fired unit every 3 1/2 DAYS!

China currently generates around two thirds of its electricity from coal-fired power stations.[13] It is progressing with the construction of 562 new coal-fired plants over the next few years.[16][17] In June 2007 it was reported that an average of two new plants were being opened every week.[1

It's a private company wanting a permit to build a oil reducing utility. GIVE THEM A PERMIT NOW.

Iranian uranium; Iranian ICBM's; Iranian satellites..CHANGE is comming BELIEVE in that!

Jeff, right off the top you quote Thompson saying,

"Critics say emissions are exactly the issue, because coal-fired power is the nation's biggest producer of CO2 emissions,"

Is this true? A quick look at "The Carbon Boom" suggests that is not true. Presented by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, which is utilizing EIA data, it is shown that CO2 emissions from Coal is only about 1/3 of total CO2 emissions from fossil fuels; see Fig D on page 16 of 44 of the report.

Also interesting in this all out attack on coal report, is that it appears that emmissions from Coal have remained almost flat (between 2000 and 2004), yet the real headline of the story was that,"between 1990 and 2004, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired plants increased by a quarter, accounting for three-forths of the emissions increase in the ... "bla bla.

Well, would you look at that. What it acutally said, is that during the Clinton era, or between 1990 and 2000, coal emissions rose some 25%. Since Bush became president, coal emissions have remained flat - a remarkable achievment.

Will somebody save me, please?

There are many problems with wind power:

- Wind Power is intermittent (wind farms must rely on conventional power plants to back up their supply)
- Wind Power costs twice as much as electricity generated from fossil fuels
- Wind Power is not economically feasible without subsidies
- Wind Power equals only about 1% of the United State's energy supply (40% Oil, 23% Coal, 23% Natural Gas, 8% Nuclear and 6% Renewables)
- Wind Energy cannot be harnessed to meet the timing of electricity demands
- Wind Energy cannot be stored (unless batteries are used)
- Wind Farm sites are often located in remote locations, far from cities where the electricity is needed
- Wind Farms can effect weather patterns
- Wind Farms can be eyesores (community members often complain about the blinding strobe-light sensation that takes place on wind farms at dawn and dusk)
- Wind Farms can produce noise pollution
- Wind Farms can interfere with radar
- Wind Farms have a devastating effect on birds (an estimated 44,000 birds have been killed over the past two decades by wind turbines in the Altamont Pass, east of San Francisco)
- Wind Farms need 100 times more land area than conventional power plants (to produce 1,000 MW of power, a wind farm would require approximately 192,000 acres, or 300 square miles; a nuclear plant needs less than 1,700 acres, or 2.65 square miles (within its security perimeter fence); and a coal powered plant takes up about 1,950 acres, 3.05 square miles)

Wind Farms - Not In My Back Yard (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

Wind - Blow Back from Neighbors Over Wind Farms (ABC News)
Wind - Catch the Wind, Change the Weather (The New York Times)
Wind - Energy Answer is Not 'Blowing in the Wind' (The Heartland Institute)
Wind - Problems With Wind Power (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Wind - The Dangers of Wind Power (BusinessWeek)
Wind - The True Cost of Electricity from Wind Power And Windmill "Availability" Factors (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Turbine Expansion Said to Threaten Birds (Associated Press)
Wind - Turbine Tower Collapse at Oregon Wind Farm Kills Worker, Injures Another (FOXnews)
Wind - Wind Energy Will Not Reduce US Oil Dependence (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Wind Farms 'A Threat to National Security' (The Times, UK)
Wind - Wind Farm Claims Are So Much Hot Air (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind - Wind Farms Disrupt Radar Images (BBC)
Wind - Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (The New York Times)
Wind - Wind Farms Worst Eyesore in UK (BBC)
Wind - Wind Power: Red Not Green (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Wind - Wind Turbines Hazardous to Birds, Bats (UPI)
Wind - Wind Turbines Taking Toll on Birds of Prey (USA Today)

Anyone advocating wind power as a solution to our nation's energy needs is not being realistic.

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