The journey into the abyss of no return

drstratton

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The gal who is the Super of the Clark County Canning dept at the Fair, is a former electrician for years and years. DrS: you are abolutely spot on. Its the same as what she said, when she was building them, working at Hanford, and more industrial sites.
They definitely don't want that truth spread, it doesn't fit their narrative.

Hubs worked as an apprentice at Hanford. We drive by Hanford every time we go to town. It's probably less than 30 minutes from us.

I was just telling him about this conversation and he told me they want to put an AI facility here, because the power is so cheap. I hope not. If they do, it might push us to sell and move. I'm sick of the direction WA is headed, but it's such a beautiful state and we love our home. 🙁
 

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I'm with you all on the AI centers. And around here the big thing is battery storage facilities. AND they have burned and that's no picnic way worse than anything else burning. Has to burn out - oh and don't go outside, don't breathe the air. (isn't there a song about this from long ago?)
 

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Solar panels aren't recyclables either. There are millions of them out there! I have a few locations in my vicinity that are acres & acres of them😵‍💫 my electric bill is going up to pay for them 🤬
Solar panels will outlast a wind turbine up to twice its life span.

There is no winners in this energy game, kilowatts are kilowatts, just an exchange of materials as all forms produce a byproduct that needs to be disposed of. I would say of all of them, the cleanest one in my opinion is hydro.
 

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We passed miles and miles of turbines in Southern Eastern CA. Now we're in Desert Center, CA (one hour east of Indio) and there are massive acres of solar. Also we had a 4.9 earthquake at dinner time!!
Foot massage!! Didn't feel anything here but everyone's phone was going crazy (fast becoming the little boy who cried wolf).
 
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