So unplug everything in your home that runs on electricity then, you want to be a real environmental warrior! Hypocrites. You use your computer, your lights, everything to say we're destroying the earth. You wouldn't have all that without this.

You know, the area I live in has been mined for coal for over a hundred years. Guess what, nature is still here. In fact, the prettiest wooded areas are where the coal mines of the early 20th century didn't do a good job at reclamation.

You use to being able to see it from I 30 near Mount Pleasant,Tx are one just like it back in the 1990's

Because you can't imagine other way to produce electricity, doesn't mean there isn't. You don't have to live in the stone age to be a real environmental "warrior". But you've to understand some very complexe concept, like renewable energy - it's not easy for everybody, I know.

​@@pom4408 Unlike current renewable energy sources, surface mines do not leave behind toxic materials nor a hazardous materials waste stream that has to be disposed of in landfills. Environmental reclamation efforts ensure that in addition to the replenishment of flora, the mined areas are returned to their topographical and hydrological conditions prior to mining operations. There is not a risk of the closed surface mined areas having a detrimental future environmental impact on the mined areas. Aside from the countless avian wildlife harmed including endangered avian species impacted by the spinning blades. The United States faces a growing waste problem with wind turbine blades, which are difficult to recycle and dispose of. The projected waste in the US is expected to retire more than 2 million tons or 4,000,000,000 billion pounds of wind turbine blades by 2050. Just in Texas alone, despite claims and assurances that the wind turbine blades can be recycled with minimal amounts of material destined for landfills, as of September 25, 2024, the wind turbine blades have yet to be recycled. One manufacturer of wind turbine blades "General Electric" filed a lawsuit in September 2024 claiming that "Global Fiberglass Solutions" has failed to fulfill its promise to recycle thousands of turbine blades that have arrived at the disposal site over several years and now has eventually blanketed more than thirty acres with retired wind turbine blades. Last year, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fined the company $10,255 for what it described as illegally stored solid waste. When solar panels are no longer useful, they end up in landfills. In fact, more than 90% of discarded solar panels end up in landfills. By 2030, the retired panels are estimated to cover an area equivalent to about 3,000 football fields or 6.2 square miles. Landfills are the cheapest and easiest option for disposing of solar panels but that is unsustainable. Solar panels contain TOXIC metals, so they should be sent to hazardous waste landfills; however, many are sent to municipal solid waste landfills. There are also concerns about the TOXIC materials within these landfills. The leachate from municipal solid waste landfills is highly concentrated and is so concentrated, that small amounts of leachate can pollute large amounts of groundwater, leaving it unsuitable for domestic water use. I'm guessing that the hazardous waste stream generated from renewable energy is not of concern to the environmental warrior within you. For if it were, the cognitive dissonance would be almost unbearable. There is an old saying, "It is better to remain silent and thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

It's an alien spaceship.

There was no profit in doing so, and no NPOs bid more than scrap value for, say, Big Muskie.

North Lake is gone at North Lake