They're blooding cooling towers for crying out loud, belching out...
Steam!
That tall stack in the background; now there's your C02.
If you didn't know that - consider yourself educated and join me in throwing cushions the TV next time they make that mistake on the evening news.
As an ex-environmental studies student, I see the protestors' point, but the medias' lack of attention to detail really annoys me.
And these protestors - anyone heard of long-term strategies?
They want to...
"Switch Drax power station off now!"
Right. It powers 7 million homes, do you mind hanging on a few years... Ummm decades? This power generation-thing isn't exactly like a light switch.
Oh, how'd you get here by the way?
Drove...
Rrrright.
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Actually, I didn't know that.
I suppose if I'd have THOUGHT about it I might have done - I was aware they were cooling towers, but hadn't thought about much beyond that.
(If my memory serves me correctly... Did you know that most of The Abyss was filmed in a dis-used cooling tower?)
But they do look much more impressive and imposing than the other one, which is of course all that matters - sod the actual facts and details ;)
Yeah - to the media it's all about what looks the most impressive on film, which by virtue of their size, they do. As part of my uni course, we visited a power station and were able to stand inside one of the towers that was powered down for the day. It's like a cathedral inside one of those, they're HUGE!
Didn't know that about THE ABYSS no, especially interesting considering it's one of my favourite movies of all time!
:)
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