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There's a reason so many racing games put them on their maps. They look dope.

Chevron’s Gorgon project LNG plants on Barrow Island also absolutely do not look cool.

> Texas which are covered with turbines

Is "Texas" the plural of "Texa"?

They sure aren't

Texae surely

How about pumpjacks? Do you think they look cool? Texas is also covered in those, though much less than it used to be.

do they ever take those things away? I feel like they just let them sit there. That’s what it seems like in California anyway.

> Texas which are covered with turbines, and they absolutely do not look cool.

Compared to coal plants, which are _extremely_ cool-looking. /s

I've never seen one here, which makes sense because we don't use much coal. I suppose if they were 200m high and scattered across half the state I'd have a similar opinion.

Coal mines are often associated with massive slag heaps and they can be over 200m in height.

They are not pretty but what they lack in beauty they make up for with danger to the local community from leached chemicals, underground fires and landslides.

I prefer to live near wind turbines myself.

Texas burns more coal than any other state and has hundreds of premature deaths a year caused by its coal plants.

Europe burns 10x what Texas does. Is this how we think?

Europe? The entire continent? The continent that includes large swaths of Russia?

I give up, I don't even know what you're trying to imply here. That somehow Texas (a state, in a country, in a continent) burns less coal than an entire continent? And...?

Maybe think about this for a bit

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Power_Station#J.K._S... - chimneys are 218m tall.

So they look hot?

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