tonight at work someone had tacked up an article from the Vegas paper saying that there are plans in the works to build a coal-fired power plant a few miles from here.
much is made over the fact that this is an economically depressed area (which it is) & that it'll bring a few jobs to the area, both building & manning the thing, & that emissions are to be minimalised because coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, & because of the ideal atmospheric dissipation of the region.
NOT STATED is that "atmosphericic dissipation rate" can be translated, into plain English, as "the wind never bloody stops blowing there." if it isn't the windiest chunk of desert in the western United States, than it's damn close. (when the wind STOPS blowing, the buildings tend to fall over.)
(I'll try & find the link & post it)
I put 2 & 2 together & I keep coming up with 5 on this one.
much is made over the fact that this is an economically depressed area (which it is) & that it'll bring a few jobs to the area, both building & manning the thing, & that emissions are to be minimalised because coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, & because of the ideal atmospheric dissipation of the region.
NOT STATED is that "atmosphericic dissipation rate" can be translated, into plain English, as "the wind never bloody stops blowing there." if it isn't the windiest chunk of desert in the western United States, than it's damn close. (when the wind STOPS blowing, the buildings tend to fall over.)
(I'll try & find the link & post it)
I put 2 & 2 together & I keep coming up with 5 on this one.