At 21:22 11/1/2000, Gregory Baskin wrote:
>Well, Larry, I suppose my counterculture is showing -- using photovoltaics
>allows one to avoid burning hydrocarbons and thus trashing the planet more
>than it already is.  It's so easy for us, as we toodle down the road in
>our 4,000 pound love machines, to ignore the real damage we're inflicting
>on our Mother Earth.  15 minutes of idling is 15 minutes of idling, and
>some tangibly bad s*&t happens as a result.  PV is, at least, less damaging.

But it ain't that simple, unfortunately.  Making solar cells is a fairly
dirty process too...tanstaafl.

david
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