Place of acid rains.

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

Meet the Karabash – is a tiny town just in 50 miles away from my native’s one. I’ve been there for a couple of times. That is the land of acid mists and rains, the yellow rivers and the black hills. The palce of struggle between the Nature and the Humanity. It’s a draw cus plants grow on the Lunar landscape. Looks wierd.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Industry takes the profit and leaves humanity with the consequences. There must be a better way.

It's Time to get Wise

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22545]

Karabash is in Russia.

Just keep in mind that for every underground coal mine the EPA closes in the U.S. there is new open air strip mine laying permanent waste to an area outside of the U.S. to make up for the global demand for coal.

And if you are wondering, while oil is pumped out of the ground in small pumping stations. The rare earth needed to make the batteries of you of so sicking “green” electric cars came from open strip mining of rare earth in China, where there are no environmental regulations.

So, yea eco-greenies. You keep saving the Earth by permanently destroying one forest at time.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6412]

That plant still operating in photos looks similar to a 250 megawatt power station .. we also have coal one here about sixty miles away and it is similar size building and stack.

[SuggestiusParticipant 3312]

It’s a copper smelting plant. The reason of that ecological disaster. I’m not sure if we still have coal plants in use.

Happiness for all and let no one be forgotten ("Roadside picnic", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22545]

hmskl’d wrote:

That coal fired plant still operating in photos looks like possibly a 250 megawatt power station .. just guessing, we have one about sixty miles from here and it is similar size.

It should be noted that U.S. coal power plants use filters on their smoke stacks to cut down on chance of causing acid rain.

Also, U.S. coal has less sulfur content (a big cause of acid rain) and burns better than the coal mined from China.

[BoarParticipant]

Faust For Science wrote:

And if you are wondering, while oil is pumped out of the ground in small pumping stations. The rare earth needed to make the batteries of you of so sicking “green” electric cars came from open strip mining of rare earth in China, where there are no environmental regulations.

What???? So how are the whimyns suppose to be morally superior while driving their Prius to Starbucks? /sarc

Untamed wrote: Quit complaining and Go Your Own Way in whatever manner suits you best.

[bladeParticipant]

Intresting pics . What planet is that .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[WhackerGuy2030Participant 999]

Once a coal plant updates their scrubbers, the pollution is almost nothing. Still not good enough. The irony of it all is this. In America, it used to be farmers never had to apply sulfur to grow crops because they got it from dirty diesel fuel and industrial smoke stacks. Now, the emissions have been fixed at coal plants and on diesel engines.

Today, farmers need to apply sulfur because they’re not getting any from the atmosphere. Coal plant scrubbed byproducts (the captured sulfur), gypsum, is now transported all around the country via rail and semi and is having to be spread on fields… All by diesel powered equipment.

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