Class reply, Greger !
Can't argue the "facts" snark the message. Don't like the message, kill the messenger !
Just what form of "alternative energy" or "green energy" has lived up to it billing ?
Windmills/turbines, besides being apallingly noisy, are proven ecutioners of wildlife and insects, disruptive of migration routes, all while producing sporadic power at the cost of an abysmal availability record. And we haven't yet seen what effects massed banks of these devices will have upon downwind weather and perhaps climate.
Solar cells are great, until you learn they don't meet the touted life-span or efficiency numbers by a significant amount. Again a sporadic power source with seasonal and weather caused fluctuations. And no one's talking about their possible effects upon local and downwind weather due to the albedo change they creat over large areas. Or their vast footprint required to generate even modest amounts of electricity sporadically. And their "availability numbers" suck as well.
So far none of these environmental jewels has even remotely approached being viable. If they were their promoters wouldn't need the rate-payers of utilities to subsidize them, would they ? >Mech
