environmental scat

*Near Berlin the Germans installed a 200 acres solar panels farm on an unused cold war era airport.  Construction start until power on was 2 months, it will supply 9,300 homes.  2 months, think of what's possible if the US had the will, we could go clean energy in a decade.
*GE has a new wind turbine that can operate in high(er) wind conditions.
*Scotland announced the worlds largest wind farm, it's at sea, it will power 40% of the homes in Scotland, nearly a million.  Plans are in the works already to grow it. Now that's how you screw the fossil fuel industry and clean up your air.
*One of the few new coal fired power generators going on line in the US is in Illinois.  Towns that contracted for energy are getting a nasty surprise.  Batavia for example learns now the average home will see around $15 a month increase due to cost overruns.  Neighboring towns who instead contracted with the new wind mill farms near by will be getting their power at the same price as before, for a few it will even be less.
*The US now pumps more oil out of the ground than ever before, drill baby drill has been the dirty secret of Obama and the GOP who pretend it's not happening.  More oil than ever, and it has not lowered gas prices.
*The gas lobby now says fracking doesn't cause gases to get into peoples water supply and into their homes, it's from gas creeping up along the pipe that goes into the earth.  Got that logic, its not the fracking, its the pipe we use to frack thats the problem.  So, solution, better cementing around the pipe at various levels.  Any expert on cement will tell you that cement has a life, after many years it softens or cracks.  So, how long are they going to protect us, 10 years, 30 years.  The industry admits most all wells are leaking a little now, hey, this won't get better, it will get more severe with time.