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LancairDriver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
I love active mines--------they have their own beauty, in an industrial sorta way, like a city does. My daughter lives in Herriman, Utah in a new
developement, and her out the front door viewshed is the HUGE Bingham Canyon Copper mine tailings------incredible with the morning light and all the
bright and varied colors----I never fail to be inspired by that site, and they love it also. 
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Even more beauty in West Virginia, where they are blowing the tops off of mountains for easier access to the coal. 
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LancairDriver
| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
I love active mines--------they have their own beauty, in an industrial sorta way, like a city does. My daughter lives in Herriman, Utah in a new
developement, and her out the front door viewshed is the HUGE Bingham Canyon Copper mine tailings------incredible with the morning light and all the
bright and varied colors----I never fail to be inspired by that site, and they love it also.
Barry |
Even more beauty in West Virginia, where they are blowing the tops off of mountains for easier access to the coal. |
All because our hands were tied to drill more and get to our oil and gas supplies or use nuclear power... 'the energy of the future'!
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LancairDriver
| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
I love active mines--------they have their own beauty, in an industrial sorta way, like a city does. My daughter lives in Herriman, Utah in a new
developement, and her out the front door viewshed is the HUGE Bingham Canyon Copper mine tailings------incredible with the morning light and all the
bright and varied colors----I never fail to be inspired by that site, and they love it also.
Barry |
Even more beauty in West Virginia, where they are blowing the tops off of mountains for easier access to the coal. |
They had to do something---------underground coal mines are dangerous, you know. Do they look more beautiful in the evening, or early morning?
If I look out my back door in Redding, I get to see the Iron Mountain Mine HazMat site where mega-millions have been spent by the EPA with relatively
little progress in mitigating the reported poison it emits into the down-stream Sacramento River. Fun, fun!!!! But the tailings, like at the Bingham
Copper Mine and Santa Rosalia, are beautiful in the right light.
-----but David has a good point.
You gotta look for the bright-side in all this stuff. There are always trade-offs. 
Barry
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LancairDriver
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Barry A:
They had to do something---------underground coal mines are dangerous, you know. Do they look more beautiful in the evening, or early morning?
Anytime- as they say;" beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
I think DK has it right- Nuclear is the way to go, even considering the disposal problem. You only have to look at European countries such as France
and Sweden for example, who have over a 50 year near perfect safety record using it and realize a sizable chunk of their energy requirements as a
result. No dependence on the Arabs for this.
How about our nuclear subs. 560ft long x 45ft wide and moving underwater at 25mph generating 60,000 horsepower while only needing to refuel every 25
years. Limit is in the human endurance, requiring two alternating crews to man them.
One sub could supply all of San Francisco's power needs(or all of Baja) by itself for the same length of time. It is hard to discount this potential
for power. Unfortunately, we are way behind in the planning and permitting process and it will be a long time to get on line with this power resource
we developed over 65 years ago.
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