{"id":2462,"date":"2005-04-05T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/04\/05\/coal-sux\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T11:02:32","slug":"coal-sux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/04\/05\/coal-sux\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal sux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why so many smart people think nuclear power is a good idea, and why so many reactionary hippies think it isn&#8217;t? As usual the answer comes down to who actually bothers with facts and who spends most of their time protesting things too complicated to reduce to a slogan they can chant at a rally.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;It posits that we actually spit out more raw tonnage of wasted uranium every year as a by-product of burning coal than we actually use in nuclear reactors.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/40968#897054\">quote in context<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, while these people have managed to set back the intelligent generation of energy from atomic sources for 50+ years allt he while bitching about &#8220;technology&#8221; ruining their connection with what they thin is &#8220;nature&#8221; they have created a huge health problem. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/info\/ornlreview\/rev26-34\/text\/colmain.html\">Coal Combustion<\/a> &#8211; coal is a huge nuke hazard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/40968\">No Accidents in Over 30,000 Years! &#8211; MetaFilter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why so many smart people think nuclear power is a good idea, and why so many reactionary hippies think it isn&#8217;t? As usual the answer comes down to who actually bothers with facts and who spends most of their time protesting things too complicated to reduce to a slogan they can chant at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}