@jeffowski It’s like that with some locals of nearby Redcar, UK. Bemoaning the closure of steelworks and industry as “heritage” on the coast in this picture but despising the offshore wind farms that now appear to the right of it.
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I don't want to get into "my dystopia is worse than yours". I'm in post-industrial Stoke on Trent. What I'd like to see is a change in building regs that insists on all new builds (residential, commercial and infrastructure) having grid connected solar generation built in, with capability to add storage later, when battery tech improves. Carbon laced concrete super-capacitors are in development and could form part of the structure of the building
@jeffowski Wind is here, and it's on the verge of expansion in the US, but is it in time? And what exactly is the carbon cost of building it out? With so many tipping points near, I wonder if the carbon we expend to save ourselves will finish us.We should have been implementing wind and solar decades ago. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/offshore-wind-change-is-in-the-air
But there's an In n Out Burger joint atop a hill and maybe there's a Home Depot to the NW side of it.
Anyway, the In n Out parking lot looks over a turbine yard. It's kinda fantastic to look upon whilst enjoying the absolute best burger ever. Ever.
The one I'm thinking of is somewhere between LA and San Diego. Ish.
@MHowell@jeffowski bud this is a park less than 5 miles away taken a couple of years after the accident. Fukushima was not the apocalypse you think it was.
@necromantrix@jeffowski Right, and I'm still awaiting my radioactive superpower since I was in Tokyo on 3/11 and exposed to the subsequent cesium cloud. Fukushima is only 12 years into a 50-60 year cleanup at a cost of US billions.
Meanwhile, the Midnite Uranium Mine near Spokane WA continues to emit low level radiation and produce super acidic water, and will have to have continuous filtering/processing into perpetuity.
Oh, sorry were you saying nuclear energy was clean for some misguided reason?
@necromantrix@jeffowski You conveniently forget about the thousands of truckloads of contaminated soil that had to be removed to get the background radiation levels low enough to allow children back in that park?
@necromantrix@jeffowski Don't listen to the haters. Not everyone understands what "land-efficient" means, or what relativity it. People love to spam facts that have nothing to do with your point.
can’t remember which episode of Treme, season 2, but this was a great little scene, after so many restaurant scenes with people eating “fresh” seafood”…
@jeffowski If you buy the whole neighborhood and let police evict the people, who lived there. There are surprisingly few people seeing these beauties.
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