Originally Posted by
Khantahr
Ugly compared to a coal plant? They're not noisy. Sitting right underneath one, my idling motorcycle (which itself isn't that loud at idle) was louder than the wind turbine.
Coal is nasty. There's no such thing as clean coal and coal burning plants actually release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants.
What we need is a rebirth of the nuke sector in this country. It's happening but too slowly. We will always need a constant load into our power infrastructure that only nuclear, nat gas, and coal can do. We just need to pretty much get rid of coal altogether.
Wind has been great and I just read China built a solar farm that's twice as big as Manhattan. It's all doable we just need the will to do it.