Europe Turns Back to Coal, Raising Climate Fears

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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.

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