‘Coal Cares’ hoax website backed by science

[Barrett808]

An activist prankster group called Coal is Killing Kids has struck with a hoax website lampooning the coal industry’s resistance to federal pollution reforms. And science is on their side.

The target of their “Coal Cares” site, supposedly offering free Justin Bieber and Dora the Explorer inhalers to children living near coal-fired power plants, is Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private coal company. Peabody and other energy companies have opposed government-mandated cleanup fixes.

“Some environmentalists have suggested that coal companies should install an untested technology called ’scrubbers’ atop coal plants to make them burn more cleanly, reducing coal particulate exposure as one cause of childhood asthma,” reads the site. “For our part, Peabody has decided that reducing Asthma-Related Bullying (ARB) is the single most effective way to combat public misperceptions of our industry.” ...

‘Coal Cares’ hoax website backed by science

[hunter]

1. Excellent!

"Coal power is, of course, solar power. That’s because millions of years ago, before coal began to form from decaying organic matter, the sun provided the energy that organic matter required to grow and spread. Other forms of fossil fuel—oil and natural gas—are also ways that Nature has found to store solar energy in ways that can be predictably, safely, and reliably released to power our lives."

http://www.coalcares.org/cleanenergy.html

[NickB79]

2. The insane thing is that I've read that very argument here on E/E

And it wasn't in jest.

[Kolesar]

3. It's like that guy from New Jersey never died

Wind technology is another “alternative” wild card. Every single year, gargantuan wind turbines kill literally thousands of birds—especially when the turbines are located in the middle of migration paths. Exploding bats are also a growing problem, as vibrations from turbines causes the rodents’ lungs to burst apart in mid-flight.

Animals aren’t wind’s only victims. Violently spinning turbine blades are a potential decapitation hazard for curious passers-by who climb up the ladders often installed on the shafts. Also, these high, easy-to-climb structures can be an irresistible temptation for depressives lost in the flatlands where turbines are usually sited, and seeking a means of suicide.



Windmills seem to make it their business to disrupt and destroy any and all panoramic vistas they inhabit. Furthermore, these machines emit a low-pitched, humming sort of white noise that many find distracting, unpleasant, and even maddening. Not wanting to live in stark raving madness the rest of their lives, many residents inevitably turn away from the turbines, leaving behind swaths of empty homes...