Solar and wind are useless unless they're connected to the grid. Where do we put 6,000 miles of transmission lines for all these new sites? The folks running things now are suing the folks who came up with Plan A. I doubt lawsuits will get us Plan B either.
And power tourist Julianne Couch clears security, dons a dosimeter and takes us inside a nuclear plant in far east Nebraska.
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Solar and wind are useless unless they're connected to the grid. Where do we put 6,000 miles of transmission lines for all these new sites? The folks running things now are suing the folks who came up with Plan A. I doubt lawsuits will get us Plan B either.
And power tourist Julianne Couch clears security, dons a dosimeter and takes us inside a nuclear plant in far east Nebraska.
read this postThe current issue of Backpacker magazine (June '09) has an article "Hike it, Save it" that details 10 wilderness areas in danger of one sort or another. It also lists some recently saved sites.
P.S. The article notes with excitement new land protections under a recent bill signed by President Obama. But no one seemed to care when President Bush signed the biggest increase for National Parks in its history. That didn't matter according to the political partisans. -D
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