So Typical of Enviromental Wacos

[Gunslinger]

So noted.....from now on referr all references of the misspelling waco to the correct form of description Wacko(s)

[Lizking]

Actually, Waco is a city in Texas filled with Whackos.

[Duedel]

Originally posted by Lizking
Actually, Waco is a city in Texas filled with Whackos.

Uhm Lizking ... Wackos not Whackos

[Lizking]

It is a "junk" word, but:

http://www.onelook.com/?w=whacko&ls=a

[Duedel]

Hey cool reference. Thx man. Under http://dict.leo.org there's no entry

[Saurdaukar]

They are not interested in compromise - they are interested in complaining.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by miko2d
I heard those wind turbines produce ungodly noise. Is that true?

 miko

Wind power makes noise and kills birds....

Nuclear power plants have no greenhouse gas emissions, are silent, and no dead birds. New species actually develop faster around nukes.  I would love to see a four winged bird species someday.

Big, huge, feathered dragon flies, locked in flying coital bliss until they are ballistically terminated as they fly over my blind.

Pluck them and they begin to cook themselves, no added energy required, just cover in butter and foil and they are done by the time you get home.

[10Bears]

You guys go for canned farm hunts?

I'm not too big on that

[Lazerus]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
New species actually develop faster around nukes.

LOLol. I lived within eyesight of the smokestack of the Turkey Point reactor in southern FL in the early nineties. I had never seen a two tailed lizard in my life until I moved there. Saw them almost daily the entire time I lived there. Most looked healthy, many did not. Was kinda neat to pluck off one of their two tails and wonder if two more would grow back:p

[capt. apathy]

the problem with nukes isn't really at the generation site (all thought here are issues there), the big mess about nukes is where the rods are manufactured and waste disposed of.

we aren't advanced enough for nukes at this time, it's a simple concept that my mother was able to teach me while my age was still in single digits.- don't make messes that you don't know how to clean up.

we have no comercial nukes left running in Oregon, they aren't outlawed, just requiring a perminant plan for the safe storage of waste and by-products before they can be issued operating permits.  they couldn't find a plan so had to decomision it.

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You guys go for canned farm hunts?

I'm not too big on that

I wouldn't go on one myself (wouldn't pay the money  or even go if it was free),  I don't see anything ethicly wrong with it, it just seems a bit to pointless, pathetic and sad for me to want anything to do with.

but raising animals on private property (and at private expense) for the purpose of hunting them is no worse than raising them in much less humane conditions to die wholesale in a slaughterhouse.

[Holden McGroin]

Trojan had a lot more wrong than that.  Trojan once generated 1/4 of Oregon's energy.  

Much of the high pressure piping had cracks, and the cost of repair was large. Being in the political climate where the ignorant masses qualify measures for the ballot to make operational decisions cost PGE a bunch of money that could have gone into the repair budget.

I say 'ignorant masses' not in a derogatory way, its just that some specailized knowledge is required, and the stereo store clerk does not have the technical background to make an informed choice.  

The WPPSS debacle, which was fiscal not technical, gave Nukes a much bigger hurdle to jump. While they aren't outlawed, a huge education to people who do not wish to learn is required before the nuclear industry starts building US reactors again.

[capt. apathy]

I think the doe should get hanford cleaned up before any aditional nukes are created, that should settle the issue for the next century or so.