Comments on: No Such Thing as “Clean” Coal

By: ebantidewater

ebantidewater — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:27:18 +0000

I'm glad somebody spoke of the real cost of nuclear power - the very dirty mining practices. There are plenty of these tailing ponds throughout the west that are so toxic that life as we know it cannot live in them. I was with Phil all the way until he advocated for Nuclear power. If we all just cut back to the essentials, check our egos, stand up to the advertising BS, we will give our planet a real fighting chance at recovering from our last 100 years of industrialization!

By: Jon Booth

Jon Booth — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:29:53 +0000

one of the problems with nuclear power (besides creating waste that lasts basically forever and that we have no idea how to get rid of) is very similar to the problem with the Black Mesa coal. The mining practices are terrible and often displace indigenous people.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:51:54 +0000

Here's kind of an odd thought. Build some geothermal where it can work. Build some wind farms where they can work. Put in some solar panels where they can work well. And build some nuclear power plants where none of that is sufficient.

Before you start bitching about the inherent dangers of nuclear power, do some research. Its really useful to learn things.

Anyhow, once we do that, I'm pretty sure we can easily have more than enough energy to do whatever we want, including getting clean drinking water in the African slums and such. It works great that way.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:42:47 +0000

How about we stop bitching about our energy souces and start limiting our energy consumption? People love to talk about alternative energy but cringe at the idea that maybe we should use less electricity, avoid unneccessary driving, and stop wasting water.

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:35:26 +0000

Thanks for the summary - now let's reduce our power use and decentralize and subscribe to wind and geothermal and get the true costs of coal power out there! I bicycle a lot which has greatly reduced my fossilfootprint... it's fun!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:04:20 +0000

Excellent piece. For anyone who doesn't see a problem with what they're doing to our land, I invite you to come live, eat, drink, and play in one of these many areas impacted by mining. Dare you to drink the water!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:13 +0000

werd.

By: Jon Booth

Jon Booth — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:53:38 +0000

i had a 600 word limit.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:53:38 +0000

Nice. A bit of an over-simplification of this fucked up clean coal issue, but you got your point across.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:28:12 +0000

I don't see what the problem is about mountain top removal either. It only destroys entire ecosystems and displaces whole communities in order to blow up a mountain or so at a time so we can suck the earth dry for all it's worth. Really, what's the big deal?