phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (01/02/91)
In article <18584@teda.UUCP> dll@teda.UUCP (Dan Liddell) writes: |>(1) SOLAR CELLS ARE EXPENSIVE TO MAKE AND DON'T LAST FOREVER. (ALSO, THE |> PRODUCTION PROCESSES ARE NOT PARTICULARLY "CLEAN" AND THE MORE |> ADVANCED CELLS ARE OFTEN HAZARDOUS WASTES WHEN THEY ARE RETIRED.) | |OPINION:Silicon solar cells do not represent much of a disposal |problem, at least not because of the silicon. They are probably good Henry was probably thinking of Galium Arsenide. Arsenic is generally considered a haz mat. |>(4) LARGE-SCALE SOLAR POWER SERIOUSLY CHANGES THE HEAT BALANCE OF THE |> SURROUNDING AREA, SO IT IS NOT COMPLETELY CLEAN. | |Life systems are open systems. Nothing is completely clean. Spoken like a person who's scared of math, and doesn't accept that often, a large enough quantitative change is a qualitative change. Not the kind I want running national policy. -- Whatever happened to Global Warming? Could we have some Local Warming?