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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (616767)	6/20/2011 5:13:46 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575622

The idiots running my state's oil & gas commission have shut down fracking in one area on the absurd basis that it may be causing earthquakes. You don't want anyone to look into any of these complaints? What is your objection and on what basis? Well, I hate those big trucks carrying wind turbine parts, too. And now for the ridiculous comparisons... And that 6,000 acres is ecologically devastated into perpetuity. Another ridiculous statement... I'm sorry, but strip mining today, in many areas, is far less harmful than 6,000 acres of solar arrays. I can show you huge strip mines that, if you hadn't been there when it happened, you would never know it occurred. Hey, dont' tell me about this...Alabama is strip mining country...there's isn't a single site here that is not in violation of ADEM and EPA...EVERYONE of them...THOUSANDS of water discharge, heavy metals, blasting, you name it violations...sure, if you go by one that has been restored they look harmless enough, until you test the containment ponds on the land...don't talk to me about strip mining... Just let me know when it makes financial sense, WITHOUT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY, to own these devices. I don't want to make money at it. I simply want it to cover its own cost, which no solar panel in existence today can even come CLOSE to doing. You need to be FAR more precise than your dumb rant...there are geographies where it's quite sensible...in AR or CA or a number of other high energy cost states, even at today's $/W... Al