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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Well, the something I'm saying is "I'm not getting off the grid."
::clutches surge protectors to chest::
My agreement with this is one of the reasons I'm into alternative energy. If I wanted to see us go back before the age of electricity, I'd just sit back and watch humanity do what it is doing. Cause honestly that is where business as usual is heading.
It'll be interesting if centralized power being pretty exclusive turns out to be a blip in human history.
Power issues. The biggest issue for us out here with wind is water. Water is a much bigger problem for us, so the fact that some of the windmill systems are quite water intensive is an issue. Of course, we're coming off of coal using water from the potable aquifer for their slurry, when the non-potable aquifer is Right There. So, you know, lots of issues.
Uranium mining, and irresponsibility surrounding it has contributed heavily to problems on the reservations. This article is a good, if chilling narrative of the problems over the last fifty years. It ends abruptly; maybe there was a transcription problem, but the last year discussed was 2003. I started visiting the reservation in 1998, went into full time work there in 2001. I drank well water for the next four years, and tribal water for the two following, much of which may have been uranium tainted. Here's a recent article from Scientific American on the issue.
Maybe these days mining would be better, more protected. But this is still the reservation. I doubt it.
Can you talk more about wind energy being water intensive? This is new to me.
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I know! I can't seem to stop smiling.
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Liese, your home is lovely! Thanks for sharing the photos.
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from Engadget.