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You sound surprised and shocked. It sounds about right to me.

I was the chief project engineer on an electric utility 25 MW windfarm project that was eventually cancelled. People brought up EMF, TV/radio interference, bird strikes, visual polution, noise, damage to local climate, all kinds of things. Somebody is against everything, especially if it is in their back yard.

I was also the chief licensing/permitting engineer on another power project that included a letter protesting the development by a branch of the Sierra Club to anything that included wind, solar (yes solar), ocean thermal, geothermal, coal, nuclear, combined cycle combustion turbines, etc. Like I said they were against, wind, solar, ocean thermal, geothermal, the whole nine yards.

To some environmentalist and liberals, just like guns, energy generation is inherently evil and must be stopped. After all Ammory Lovins once said giving the US an abundant supply of cheap energy would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.

It's hypocritical of Kennedy and Kerry, sure, but who wants a windmill farm in his backyard? I'd rather have a nuclear power plant down the road.

You can bet that if the environmentalists manage to plaster the landscape with windmills, ten or twenty years from now they will be agitating to take them all down again, just like they are tearing down all those clean, energy-renewable, expensive dams on all the our rivers.

If these libs were really concerned about clean and effieciant safe for the environment sources of energy and if they had half a brain they would endorse Nuclear power.

I consulted for 2 power companies and found out that wind farms require about 35 acres of land to generate 50MW, and it is very noisy.
Solar requires over 100 acres to produce 50MW and is prohibitively costly.
A nuclear power plant on about 4 acres of land can produce anywhere form 800MW to 1500MW and are very clean and inexpensive to run.

Nuclear waste is not really a problem as all plants built after 1985 have to provide thier own spent fuel storage for no less than 40 years.
Hospitals, especially those that treat cancer are the nations largest producers of radio active waste and yet everyone always wants to attack the power industry.

Yup. Let's see: no wind power, no geothermal power, no solar energy power, no clean coal power, no gas power, no nuclear power. The Rats solution is to have the country run on hot air. What a stroke of genius! Thanks for your concern for America's energy needs and your ever thoughtful appreciation for the environment, Senators Kerry and Kennedy.