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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Do you oppose or support the Early County plant?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A native of Early County writes that although many of the county’s residents are aware of the dangers of pollution from coal-generated power plants, they want good-paying jobs just like metro Atlanta residents.
“There are technical solutions to the emissions problem at LS Power and nontechnical solutions to metro Atlanta’s pollution,” he writes. “The Southern Company is investing $1.3 billion for scrubbers and pollution cleaning equipment to clean up some of the 186,000 tons per year of air pollutants at the 3,540-megawatt Plant Bowen near Cartersville. I have not heard any complaints from the residents of Cartersville, Euharlee or Acworth about pollution from Plant Bowen. If Bartow County residents can live with Plant Bowen, which is only 45 miles from Atlanta, then Early County residents can deal with the smaller 1,200-megawatt LS Power plant.
“Plant Longleaf will use 20 million gallons a day of effluent water from the adjacent Georgia-Pacific paper mill. Even this is a modest amount, considering that a large integrated paper mill uses about 40 million gallons a day of water.” Read the full opinion column.
His opinion piece ends: “Coal is America’s most abundant energy source, and we must find safe ways to use it. As for Atlantans who oppose the Longleaf plant, here is some advice from Early County farmers: Use mass transit, go to a four-day workweek, go to bed one hour earlier each night. These three simple things can save the equivalent of a Plant Longleaf in energy each year.”
What are your reasons for supporting or opposing the proposed coal-fired plant?
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Are you a ‘crackberry’? Do you know someone who is?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In an opinion column, a professor who directs the Image Understanding Laboratory at USC, writes about “crackberry,” a metaphor for our addiction-like urge to check e-mail. These people suffer separation anxiety from a BlackBerry.
Read full article at siliconvalley.com
“Human-motivation studies traditionally stress well-established needs: food, water, sex, avoidance of pain,” Irving Biederman writes in part.
“What’s been missing from this scientific research is humans’ nonstop need for more information. We are ‘infovores,’” he believes.
Are you a slave to your BlackBerry or computer e-mail? What’s your reaction to those who are?
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