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Post by trbixler on Jun 2, 2014 13:36:29 GMT
Clown with pen not votes now wants to cripple power. "Obama administration unveils controversial emissions cap on power plants" "The Obama administration on Monday unveiled the first-ever national limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants, a controversial regulation aimed at fulfilling a key plank of President Obama's climate change agenda. The Environmental Protection Agency wants existing plants to cut pollution by 30 percent by 2030, under the plan. The draft regulation sidesteps Congress, where Obama's Democratic allies have failed to pass a so-called "cap-and-trade" plan to limit such emissions. The EPA plan will go into effect in June 2016, following a one-year comment period. States will then be responsible for executing the rule with some flexibility." link
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 2, 2014 13:55:01 GMT
The definition of 'pollution' being carbon dioxide. These idiots should be sectioned for insanity.
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Post by cuttydyer on Jul 11, 2014 15:31:16 GMT
Paul Homewood blogs: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-28229430 Ignoring interest and running costs, we can see it would have paid back its cost in 800 years time. Quite apart from the astonishing initial waste of taxpayers’ money, there is also the question of how much the Welsh Government were paying for maintenance, until the manufacturer went bust. One would assume it must have been significantly more than £5/month. It is one thing wasting money on the initial project. But once it was operational and the income and costs easily identified, why was it not shut down years ago? It also begs the question, how many more wind turbines like this one are also as ineffective? Link: notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/words-fail-me/
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 13, 2014 3:05:22 GMT
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Post by cuttydyer on Jul 31, 2014 6:51:42 GMT
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Post by cuttydyer on Sept 5, 2014 6:36:29 GMT
Paul Homewood blogs: More concerns that Britain could be facing blackouts this Winter. The Telegraph report: EDF Energy could be forced to keep four of its nuclear reactors in the UK out of action until the middle of the winter amid growing concerns that Britain is facing blackouts. The French energy giant said Thursday that the reactors which were shut last month for inspections when "unexpected cracking" in a boiler unit of one of its units in Lancashire was discovered will only be returned to service gradually between the end of October and late December. "Dates for returning the stations to service depend on the findings and completion of the inspections," said EDF Energy in statement. The plants affected are Heysham 1 in Lancashire and a station in Hartlepool. The news comes after it emerged this week that emergency measures to fire up mothballed power stations could be used to keep the lights on this winter, after a series of power plant fires and closures left Britain more vulnerable to blackouts. Link: www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11074469/EDF-nuclear-plants-closed-until-winter-amid-blackout-fears.html
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 5, 2014 11:55:58 GMT
This is what happens when politicians collude with MBA grads on how little power they can get away with for what profit while engineers are not consulted. The available power margins are now thinner than the amount of power that can be supplied by a single nuclear plant. If this news is leaking out you can bet that the engineers know that there will be blackouts and these are CYA leaks. Ed Davey has painted himself into a corner.
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Post by walnut on Sept 5, 2014 15:15:37 GMT
What other species has been so determined to drive itself into extinction? Humans do better when they have warm shelter available in the winter. Or maybe we just need another round of institutional education to fully understand the bigger picture.
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Post by cuttydyer on Sept 5, 2014 19:18:38 GMT
What other species has been so determined to drive itself into extinction? Humans do better when they have warm shelter available in the winter. Or maybe we just need another round of institutional education to fully understand the bigger picture. And yet we still have the audacity to laugh at lemmings.
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Post by Ratty on Sept 6, 2014 12:23:24 GMT
And yet we still have the audacity to laugh at lemmings. I hear that laughing at lemmings carries a fine or custodial sentence in countries where the Greens hold balance of power.
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Post by tobyglyn on Sept 9, 2014 4:14:48 GMT
What other species has been so determined to drive itself into extinction? Humans do better when they have warm shelter available in the winter. Or maybe we just need another round of institutional education to fully understand the bigger picture. And yet we still have the audacity to laugh at lemmings. "Some of the most memorable scenes in White Wilderness, Disney's 1958 Academy Award-winning "True-Life Adventure" nature documentary about wildlife in the snowy northern portions of the North American continent, were ones featuring the death of lemmings who drowned after jumping off cliffs and into the sea. But the scenes shown in the documentary were staged by filmmakers in order to replicate supposed real-life behavior of lemmings that could not be captured on film, and thus did Disney perpetuate for generations to come the legend of periodic, inexplicable mass suicides by lemmings who die by hurling themselves off of cliffs. ""Disney had to have gotten that idea from somewhere," said Thomas McDonough, the state wildlife biologist. Disney likely confused dispersal with migration, he added, and embellished a kernel of truth. Lemming populations fluctuate enormously based on predators, food, climate and other factors. Under ideal conditions, in a single year a population of voles can increase by a factor of ten. When they've exhausted the local food supply, they disperse, as do moose, beaver and many other animals. Lemmings can swim and will cross bodies of water in their quest for greener pastures. Sometimes they drown. Dispersal and accidental death is a far cry from the instinctive, deliberate mass suicide depicted in "White Wilderness," but [the White Wilderness narrator] explains that life is tough in the lemmings' "weird world of frozen chaos." The voice-over implies that lemmings take the plunge every seven to ten years to alleviate overpopulation. "What people see is essentially mass dispersal," said zoologist Gordon Jarrell, an expert in small mammals with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "Sometimes it's pretty directional. The classic example is in the Scandinavian mountains, where (lemmings) have been dramatically observed. They will come to a body of water and be temporarily stopped, and eventually they'll build up along the shore so dense and they will swim across. If they get wet to the skin, they're essentially dead." Jarrell said when people learn that he works with lemmings, the mass suicide issue often comes up. "It's a frequent question," he said "'Do they really kill themselves?' No. The answer is unequivocal, no they don't." Read more at www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp#FAH64eqmkG5Jp1TL.99
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Post by walnut on Sept 9, 2014 5:18:32 GMT
Survive as a species vs survive as an individual. This lemming is mainly concerned with his own well-being. I guess genetic programming sometimes prompts us to deactivate power plants, this petri dish is overpopulated.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 12, 2014 11:59:47 GMT
This was posted on Twitter with the comment: Can anyone tell me what is 'green' about these things? This is of course what happens to the Subsidy Farm markers when there are no more subsidies to farm - the subsidy farmers declare bankruptcy and the subsidy farm markers are left to corrode; and nobody will take responsibility for their removal or the removal of the festoons of "power" {cough} lines across what was before unspoilt countryside.
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Post by cuttydyer on Oct 12, 2014 14:47:29 GMT
This was posted on Twitter with the comment: Can anyone tell me what is 'green' about these things? The colour of the subsidy money?
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Post by scpg02 on Oct 12, 2014 14:50:05 GMT
This was posted on Twitter with the comment: Can anyone tell me what is 'green' about these things? The colour of the subsidy money? LOL that's about right.
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