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BaileyBea
08-17-2006, 11:42 PM
Here it is a late night Geo Challenge.... major event happened here.



http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/35226.jpg
squimp
08-18-2006, 12:23 AM
Is it 3-mile island nuclear power plant? That big thing on the right looks like a cooling tower.
SammyeGail
08-18-2006, 12:28 AM
3 mile island?

Samantha
(but DH gets credit if its right, lol)
Saccade
08-18-2006, 12:53 AM
Looks more like Chernobyl to me.

ETA: I highly recommend a visit to this photoblog by a woman who supposedly rode her motocycle through the ghost towns surrounding Chernobyl: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ or http://www.elenafilatova.com/ The framing story is likely a hoax, but a good read, and the photos are real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

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shilo
08-18-2006, 03:18 AM
ok, that is pretty disturbing. i know i'm a crazy green californian, but every time my husband (midwesterner) brings up nuclear power plants as a good solution to our reliance on fossil fuels, it totally gives me the heeby geeby's. i know he may be right, and with the proper safety controls, it's probably safe, but yikes, it still creeps me out, and those pictures only make me more jittery about the thought.

lori
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BaileyBea
08-18-2006, 08:11 AM
You are right... it is Chernobyl!

My DH will love the links. It's amazing the large area of the fallout and the cover-up.

Thanks for sharing the links.
BaileyBea
08-18-2006, 08:26 AM
Hey Lori,

We are two crazy green tree huggers in Texas. DH is big into the peak oil theories and the further development of wind and solar energy. In Austin we are able to choose where we buy energy from and we buy wind energy from giant windmill farms in West Texas. We actually pay quite a bit less for energy than those fellow Austinites that didn't sign up for this program and we have a fixed energy rate for 10 years. Which is great considering that the regular gas or nuclear energy rates are not fixed and fluctuate depending on the market.

Just an interesting FYI I thought you and DH would enjoy discussing. I have a whole list of peak oil books if you are interested.