Killing Birds! RD hits at least 1 a year and drives less than I do. I have not hit a bird in 20 or 30 years. Would someone stretch the "Truth"
How long has it been since some hit a "Bald Eagle"?????
Wind Farms are exempt from fines - Oil Co. can be fined up to $28,000 per bird that gets covered with oil.
Surface mining - Many years ago a law was passed that once an area was mined out it had to be returned to its original condition.
Older coal plants did have many problems with pollutants.
Almost all of them have been fitted with scrubbers or shut down.
Tucson G&E has a coal fired PP almost down town, no pollution, acid rain or other problems.
Laughlin Nevada has a coal fired plant and the coal is delivered by pipe line. All their cooling water goes into a big pond where it is cooled & reused. I toured that plant about 12/15 years ago. No pollution problems with the plant.
Some coal plants are so close to the mine that coal is delivered by a conveyer belt.
My driving & waste - From my place its 25 miles just to the city limits. For groceries add 5 miles and most everything add another 10 to 20 miles. Almost every trip is multi purpose. And often a shared trip picking up things for other folks.
Where I live that " Little Subie" could not even get to town during the rainy season. We just spent the last 4 days working on the main road in and out. For a few years it will be passable most of the time, for most cars. From my house to that road is still limited.
Love it - Rants about mercury poisoning and bragging about using CFL bulbs.
Recycling - I can only talk about what we did from about 1940 on. Before that I was not on this earth. The "Big House" in town bought in 1943 or 4 was made of Adobe. When it was enlarged adobe's were made right in the yard. Our little house was 2 houses moved in and joined.
In that area there were many old building that had been abandoned, as much as possible that was where our building materials came from.
Even in town we had out buildings most of those were moved from somewhere else.
On our mining claims (Nothing was ever mined) the house was moved from town. Out buildings were made from used RR ties. Used metal roofing.
Almost everything I build here is made from used or salvaged material.
Maybe that is Real Recycling. What ya think?????
Boy oh Boy good old rsewill, still at it. The clean & green authority.
Had a Trucking business for 20 years. His words " I worked with junk equipment " First it was junk and that's what he called it when he sold it. Then all at once he called it "Used". We know that old "Junk" was clean & green.
Glad that so many of us have helped RD pay for his energy farm and he is able to make $$$$ off of it.
