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I'd like your articles to be available via RSS feeds. Thanks!
-Brandon, Chapel Hill
I second Brandon's note. Your publication is the most well-written in the county. I'd like to be able to link to specific articles.
Don Lein writes in his "Winds of Change" editorial, "To produce one million megawatt-hours per year... nuclear requires 1 square mile, geothermal requires 3, coal requires 4, solar requires 6 , natural gas needs 8, petroleum needs 18, while wind farms require over 30 square miles."
The flaw of this reasoning is that he is comparing in some cases the area of the plant used to turn fuel into electricity with, in others, the area of the collection of sun or wind. That is, the coal plant is small but the area devastated by the mines to supply it is huge. Also, the wind turbines do not occupy, in terms of land use, the whole area they cover. Those that are on farm or grazing land leave most of the area untouched and productive for other uses.
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