Re: [Vo]:U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects

[Edmund Storms]

Every "normal" person is in favor of protecting the environment, Mike. 
Its the way it is done or the hypocrisy shown by the administration that 
is so stupid. For example, drilling in the coastal waters or in Alaska 
is all right even though the harm to the environment is obvious. But, 
covering areas that are unused and out of sight by equipment that will 
eventually be removed has to be debated. Meanwhile, it is ok to rape the 
land in Canada for oil shale while we are encouraged to use more oil. 
Even the ethanol idea was a cruel hoax that is now too expensive to 
continue because energy is too expensive to be used to raise corn for 
that purpose. Given the basic approach this administration has shown, it 
is easy to think that protecting the environment is simply a fig leaf 
for killing the competition to oil.

Ed

Mike Carrell wrote:

No need for apoplexy, don't blame the administrators, they did not make 
the rules and Congress and the greens had only the best of intentions 
when lobbying for the protection of the land and all the green and 
creepy things thereon. When your are promoting a technology that may 
lead to covering square miles of land in our thirst for energy, it is 
well take a look at the environmental consequences of doing so. *Not* 
doing so got us where we are.

The informaltion about Nanosolar with printed PV with 14% efficiency 
looks most interesting, but you need to deploy a few square miles to 
find the 'gotchas' through wind, sand and rain.

Meanwhile watch Blacklight Power over the next few years. Utility-scale 
reactors are on their ajenda. Hydrogen from water.

Mike Carrell