By the way, it was also the Jehovah's Witnesses that successfully argued before the US Supreme Court that they could not be forced to carry the state motto "Live Free or Die" on their license plates, New Hampshire, Wooley v. Maynard (1977).
What a great country, or what?
Link here. google sun peeks through in solar
The US is on pace to install as much solar power this year as it did in this century's entire first decade; at least 2,500 megawatts, the equivalent of more than two nuclear-power plants. The US added about 742 megawatts of solar capacity in the second quarter, or enough to power about 150,000 homes...The story is worth reading.
************************
Also, in today's WSJ -- how would you like a nuclear waste plant in your back yard -- the thought makes an oil pipeline pale in comparison. Google waste-plant dispute builds
Data points:
- Hanford, Washington (state)
- a $12.2 billion project
- 65 acres for the project
- sits on the 586-square mile Hanford site which produced plutonium for atomic weapons in WWII
- Bechtel Corp
- will house four (4) nuclear facilities
- it is being designed as it is being built -- repeat, it is being designed as it is being built
- already leaks have been discovered: the threat of leaks has been a concern for decades
So, there you have it.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.