Solar and wind are not clean energy. Making them requires enormous amounts of fossil fuels. Sand has to be mined, converted into silica which is then grown into silicon crystals. Purifying the crystals requires toxic chemicals, which requires, of course, fossil fuels. Manufacturing of turbine blades, towers, gear reducers, generators and inverters also requires tremendous fossil fuels. There is little that can be recycled from either technology.
I live in the Northeast. Twenty years ago electricity was under 10 cents per Kw-hr. Now I pay over 22 cents, mostly because we got rid of our nuclear plants. I can easily afford it but what about the elderly living on a fixed, very small, income?
A solar company razed a nearby hillside - about 40 acres - of trees to put in solar. Where were the environmentalists protesting the loss of forest, killing of forest habitat for the squirrels, owls, rabbits, deer and other forest critters? Also those trees use CO2 to live, making Oxygen for everyone.
Solar and wind are not clean energy. Making them requires enormous amounts of fossil fuels. Sand has to be mined, converted into silica which is then grown into silicon crystals. Purifying the crystals requires toxic chemicals, which requires, of course, fossil fuels. Manufacturing of turbine blades, towers, gear reducers, generators and inverters also requires tremendous fossil fuels. There is little that can be recycled from either technology.
I live in the Northeast. Twenty years ago electricity was under 10 cents per Kw-hr. Now I pay over 22 cents, mostly because we got rid of our nuclear plants. I can easily afford it but what about the elderly living on a fixed, very small, income?
A solar company razed a nearby hillside - about 40 acres - of trees to put in solar. Where were the environmentalists protesting the loss of forest, killing of forest habitat for the squirrels, owls, rabbits, deer and other forest critters? Also those trees use CO2 to live, making Oxygen for everyone.
Hypocrites.