OPINION:
All the so-called ’clean energy’ scams are not so clean. In fact, most do far more harm than good. The global biofuel disaster has killed millions of innocent people worldwide and is eroding away our topsoil while increasing water and air pollution and raising the cost of fertilizer, farmland and food all over the world. Windmills and solar schemes are worthless. They lack energy density and reliability. You cannot replace a three course meal (fossil fuels) with a single potato chip (wind, solar and biofuels). It is mathematically impossible and destructive to try.
We make food with carbon and low-cost energy, so if you make carbon our enemy and increase the cost of energy you increase the cost of food. The higher the cost of food, the more innocent people die of malnutrition and related illness, and the more children suffer mental retardation due to malnutrition.
CHRISTOPHER CALDER
Eugene, Ore.
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