| Most people that are involved in the alternative | | | | cement puts out a huge amount of CO2 in the |
| energy sector will swear up and down that solar | | | | atmosphere. Also those giant steel pipes that tower |
| power does not contribute to global warming. | | | | up into the air must be manufactured. And in the |
| However, this is totally not true. Did you know that | | | | steel making process, they also put out a huge |
| the etching chemical that is used in the manufacturing | | | | amount of greenhouse gases. It was once computed |
| process of solar panels, and is also used to | | | | that it takes 5 to 10 years to offset the greenhouse |
| manufacture such things as flat-panel displays, and | | | | gases it takes to manufacture the wind turbines, |
| iPads screens is a chemical that is actually 16,000 | | | | based on how much they are supposed to save us |
| times more deadly as a greenhouse gas than carbon | | | | from coal-fired plants that put out the same amount |
| dioxide? | | | | of energy. |
| It's not just solar panels when it comes to the | | | | In other words, the net result is next to zero, for up |
| contribution of greenhouse gases in the alternative | | | | to a decade. And I don't know about you, but out |
| energy sector, which I now call "the alternative | | | | near Palm Springs most of those old wind turbines |
| energy bubble" industry because we are building the | | | | that are 10 years old, they are working anymore, |
| bubble in that sector right now just as we did with | | | | many of them have been replaced with new larger |
| the dot-coms and the housing mortgages - but also | | | | wind turbines. In that case it is quite possible that the |
| did you know that wind turbines also contribute quite | | | | wind turbines will never offset greenhouse gasses or |
| a bit to the amount of greenhouse gases in our | | | | slow down global warming. Not that Global Warming |
| atmosphere? | | | | Theory is valid anyway, I am just making a point |
| It's true, because the large wind turbines have very | | | | about reality here. Please consider all this. |
| large concrete bases, and the manufacturing of | | | | |