Re:Open source + no hardware innovation: reusabili (Score 1)

Don't be so quick point out the coal fired plants low pollution. The Gorge is being slammed with acid rain and fog most likely attributed to the pollutive triumvirate of the PGE Coal Plant and a massive factory farm to the east and the constant vehicle emssions in the gorge and to the west in Portland. That plant is NOT/ operating up to current Clean Air regs:

The PGE coal plant, constructed 30 years ago with controls then considered current, does not have to comply with federal Clean Air Act rules that would apply to plants built today. It received an exemption from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1975 two weeks before sweeping regulations went into effect. That exemption was later declared by EPA in a related court proceeding to be a mistake. The power plant is now among the dirtiest in the region, lacking scrubbers that are typically standard on such plants built today. Let's sugarcoat the dirty coal plants, please. It doesn't do much but harm.