Gluttons, both of you. This kind of entitlement-infected American thinking disgusts me, many in this country, and many around the world. Your quality of life is someone else's famine, oppression, and starvation.
Obi,
with all due respect - my quality of life has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone elses lack of that quality.
You will never make me feel guilty because I do well for myself - I worked my butt off to get where I am in life - sleeping 4 hours a night through probably 15 years of it just so I could stay ahead of the learning curve.....
The only thing that bother me about the cost of power is that there are so many better ways we could be producing it and aren't because a minority of the people in the country are afraid of nuclear power (yes a vocal minority - but a minority none the less) and our government tends to pamper those people a whole hell of a lot more than they should.
That aside - whatever the freight - I'll either pay it or move out of the state.... and I don't see myself moving at any point in time quick.
I strive to do better than I do-- have been since before being green became a fad this summer.
Nothing wrong with that - and I am happy for you - however I am in construction - do a lot of work with wood (currently building a 3 story wood frame apartment complex) and don't view the ecology in quite the same way as you do.
For example - we now have 4 times as much forest land in CT as we did when we first set foot on it's shores - and 10 times as much nation wide - so what's everyone crying about when we cut down a tree?
And come on, Rod, you live here in CT with me where electricity prices were increased what, like 50 percent a few years ago?
Them is da breaks - as far as I can see it - we are just now starting to catch up with the rest of the world with our energy costs........
And you side with the creeps with their multi million dollar waterview homes who don't want a wind farm in Long Island Sound or near their cottage in Aspen or Vail?
Obi, you sound like an intelligent human being - but apparently have bought into the mistaken idea that kind power is ecology friendly power - for free and self renewing - and that is a lie told to the people to make them feel good about it.
Picture (if you will ) hundreds and hundreds of wind mills sitting on top of the rockies - what do yuo suppose is going to happen to the prevailing winds from the west ( that we now count on to bring all that nice moist air all the way across the country from the Pacific Ocean) when we strip it of 25 or 30% of it's energy........ is it still going to have enough energy to get the job done - especially since they are also talking about tall wind towers in the mid-west - and towers in the Appilacian mountains........ and they are thinking in those directions all over the world -
It can't continnue to move around the world at the same rates if you strip energy from it to covert to electricity.
You have the same thing with tidal waters - and each photovotaic cell is a bit of sun power that used to warm the earth that no longer does or will......... you could place enough of them around the world to easily cool the earth several degrees.
I am not preaching gloom doom and dispair - but am simply pointing out that each and every source of energy has prices we are going to eventually have to pay.
Overindulgence is as unhealthy for a nation as it is for your body. Stockpiling incandescents? Throwing away 5 cubic yards of trash/biweekly? And that's just recycling? Wake up! My family of four (two in diapers) often manages to only put out one small 20 gallon (sometimes two) can out to the curb.
Listen - first off - 40 watts of light is 40 watts of light - it doesn't know of care in what format it is consumed....... it is complete bull that a 40 watt CFL produces the same lighting as a 60 or 70 or 100 watt incandescent bulb.
If you want 40 watts of light - put in a 40 watt bulb.
Next - the 5 yard dumpster was a typo - I meant to say 2 yard..... and that makes financial sense - I pay less than 1/2 the cost of disposal as my neighbors with their 3 or 4 different containers - AND it only takes one truck to pick up my garbage every 2 weeks - whereas they have 2 stopping every week at their houses. I am doing the ecology a favor.
Would you like a wah-fer thin mint?
Heck - I just love thin mints........
Seriously - if I caught someone dumping chemicals into the ground - I would probably break both of their legs - I do take conservation of our resources seriously - but I do not go to extremes - nor do I buy into the global warming retoric or the we are destroying the earth bull that the extremists preach.
The earth has it's own ways of making adjustments - and it all evens out in the end.....
As far as being a part of the NIMBY's - nope - not me - I firmly believe (probly more so than you ever will ) that as long as my neighbor doesn't so anything to physically damage my property - that he/she should be able to do anything they want to with their property.
I used to live in Sterling Ct - and one of the things I loved most about it was that it had no zoning (still doesn't) - so if I bought property across the street from your home and wanted to build a garage - or a store - or put a traliler on it - OR SET UP A MICROWAVE TOWER - that was up to me - not you - and I fully supported owners rights to do with their property as they wished. I still do.
Yes, I still believe that - so no - I do not have a problem with someone putting wind towers around my house - I am only opposed to the lie that are being spread that they will not/ can not have any adverse effect on the environment.
Which is not to say that I don't believe we should use them - only that we should do so knowing the potential effects that might take place.
Respectfully,
Rod