at least make sure you can make it look good.
What If You Organized a Pro-Coal Rally and Nobody Came? For the answer to that question, you’re going to have to ask someone at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (the same people behind CO2: We Call It Life and EnjoyBottledWater.org). Yesterday, in counter-protest to the 1000 person-strong Capitol Climate Action rally in Washington DC to urge Congress to shut down its coal-fired power plant, CEI organized it’s own rally:
Fewer People Attend Than Are Employed by CEI in DC
And less than 25 people showed up (that’s how many people CEI said participated).
Mother Nature Network points out that apparently CEI couldn’t even get out everyone in its DC office to the event: “Around 30″ people work at that location.
I’m meh on Clean Coal. “Cleaner Coal” is what I’d term it. maybe like low-tar Cigarettes are good for you in the, “It’ll kill you slower” way.
as an aside, I’m worried about the implications of large scale wind farms (weather is an inherently chaotic system: small scale changes lead to large scale permutations further on). We need more understanding of weather systems before I’ll be totally on board large scale wind power. For those non nuclear types I’m sorry but nuclear power and, if we ever get past the break even point, fusion power are the most feasible midterm solutions.
In fact I’d say the environmental movement did more damage to themselves opposing nuclear power and working the scare factor against *all* forms of energy. I suppose that’s the difference between Evolution versus revolutions
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