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Originally Posted by baggygreen
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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
I place my bets on solar energy and on wind energy. Both are cheap, effective, and produce NO harmful end products. In fact, they're the cleanest options we have, and if we began building up fleets of windmills and solar panels, we could have plenty of energy to live with in a clean, environmentally friendly world.
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erm, the biggest problem i have with statements like this is that sure, the power itself is nice and clean but the processes required to build the wind turbines and particularly the solar panels, aren't. they're shocking!
I would say google it, but googles dominated by "solar is our saviour" pages, i cant for the life of me find the link to some lovely photos, but i'll keep looking |
Very true. The acreage of the land required for them is insane and it is harmful to wildlife, especially windfarms. The most modern form of oil drilling does much less land damage. There really is no true safe, harmless, or clean energy. Whether you build hydroelectric dams, wind farms, solar farms, drill, plant and raise bio-fuels, mine for coal, split the atom........it all has a big environmental impact in some way. I just want to see more people being honest about it. If it comes to my lifestyle, my job, my wallet or a few trees or a unproven theory of planetary warming which may or may not be happening anymore and may or may not be even caused by humans I am going to pick myself and my family's welfare every time. Drill, build refineries, mine coal, do what you have to do to make the economy work and keep people working and providing jobs.