People who have been listening to me gripe for long enough know that I get really irate about coal. I think that one of the symptoms of our continuing slide into oblivion, as a species, is the fact that we’re going back to coal power. In my opinion, any power source that we have to dig out of the ground and burn, releasing toxic crap into the air in the process, is a bad idea. I still have a cough from the pollution in India, thank you. Given that we’re stuck with the whole “burn it and release poison” idea, I would like to burn “it” as slowly as possible and in as controlled a manner as possible. Thus, I favor nuclear power over coal. It takes a long time to “burn” a stick of uranium, and everybody knows that you have to be really careful with the resulting sludge. Nobody has ever (so far as I know) blasted the top off a mountain to get at uranium, nor have they dumped the used junk directly into a river, thinking that nobody was looking. The fact that there are new nifty-cool technologies for burning coal more efficiently do not impress me. The fact that it’s a “250 year supply of energy” does not impress me. You know what would impress me? An energy source which would be clearly sustainable out to the projected lifetime of our species. That would make me happy. Coal does not.
Anyway, point of story: I saw a commercial today advertising coal. It’s described here, here. The commercial itself is available here. The juxtaposition of sweaty, oiled up (kerosene?) hardbodies with freaking coal mining sort of upsets me.
A totally inappropriate, non work safe, and non recommended video is available here. It’s girls in bikinis demonstrating power tools. You have been warned.
From the same site, here’s a mangled version of Bush’s state of the union address.
On further reflection, that whole site is really funny.
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