I was raised in Wisconsin as a hard working individual. As a teenager I worked on a farm until I became a adult. I have never worked less than two jobs at a time until I turned 44.
I don’t, … (and never have) smoke, drink, drug or gamble. In 2005 I successfully gave up caffeine entirely and haven’t had any since.
My hobbies are automobiles, electronics, driving and photography.
I have many friends, and I am well known in the tri-village area I live in.
My adult careers that stayed with me long term are ‘commercial driver’ and ‘loss prevention agent’.
Green Energy: Its Time to Use it now
Author: Joseph Toth
Green Energy: Its Time To Use It Now
At the present time when electricity and other utilities are skyrocketing, this is the perfect time to stop talking about green energy and start using it.
Here in Wisconsin, we have a new windmill project that is already up and running in Dodge county and Fond Du Lac county. These windmills stretch for miles and miles and aren’t nearly as unsightly as some people might say.
Wisconsin is currently looking at a project to put windmills out on Lake Michigan. I say ‘great’ ‘go for it’, but on the other hand there are people who don’t want it to happen. This is wrong. The windmills don’t produce any pollution to hurt the lake. They will be placed in a area that doesn’t interfere with the traffic of large ships going back and forth across the lake. Most importantly, we can benefit from having them.
Windmill farms and solar panel farms are two resources I would like to see more of. This is free energy given to us by Mother Nature that doesn’t involve any land mining for coal.
That’s another thing; These people that stand in the way of the clean operating windmills, … where are they when we mine fore coal which involves stripping the land and giving coal workers lung problems from the coal dust. Then the pollution created by train exhaust to use the railroad to haul the coal to a power plant where it will be burned, needing the use of ‘huge smoke stacks at the power plant where the coal is burned.’ Smoke stacks that send their discharges into the air we breathe! The loud mouths apposing windmills don’t look at this entire picture. They just want to be heard complaining.
Something else we can do to conserve electricity is start converting our household light bulbs to the new cutting edge L.E.D. light bulbs that just started coming out. Compact fluorescent bulbs save a lot of money over the old incandescent bulbs. However, the new L.E.D. bulbs blow the compact fluorescents right out of the water as far as savings in electricity. These bulbs cost just coins per year to operate, a minimum of three times the savings of using compact fluorescent bulbs.
Another benefit to L.E.D. bulbs is they don’t have the dangers of CFL’s or incandescent. CFL’s contain mercury, not recommended for homes with children where lamps and bulbs can get broken. Mercury is a element that can kill human beings. Mercury is absorbed through the skin and then enters the blood stream.
Additionally, CFL’s and incandescent bulbs produce razor sharp broken glass when broken. The new L.E.D. bulbs don’t do any of these things. In fact, if dropped they won’t shatter because they are made of plastic and there are no dangerous chemicals or gases inside.
Reporter Joseph Toth
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