From: Kai Becker (kmb@cameron.kn-bremen.de)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 06:40:19 MST
Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 20:48 schrieb Rafal Smigrodzki:
> ### I am not an enemy of nuclear power - if you could build a huge
> conglomerate of nuclear power stations in the middle of the desert,
> with shared defense perimeter, and a nuclear waste repository in the
> middle, it would be the coolest, safest, and possibly the cheapest
> method of getting energy.
--> single point of failure.
> But I agree that the Greens will most likely try to sabotage any
> progressive technology, and sue the windfarms for "ugliness".
They do! But it seems they no longer succeed on land.
Some people on a small island in the north sea claim that those offshore
windfarms could be seen from 18km(!) distance and "pollute" the view to
the horizon. My pocket calculator says that they would only see the
wingtips and my experience with the weather there says, they'll not even
see those.
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@cameron.kn-bremen.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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