On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:52:32PM -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
> > She rode through the area on her bike. The pictures of the road are from
> > that. Then she took an official tour and the pictures OFF the road are from
> > that. She didn't clearly state which pictures are from where. Some people
> > decided that this was "fake".
> >
> > Just another amazing rumor that makes nuke power look bad and oil look
> > better by comparison. 
> >
> > Like that bit about how solar panels take more power to build than they
> > produce in their life time.
> >   
> Oops, I missed this one. Yes, if the standard process is used (slices of 
> 6" silicon crystal wafers), the crystal
> is made by many kilowatts of careful heating and crystal growing. So 
> that one is SORTA true.

Of course, aparently up until recently, solar panels were almost
exclusively made using recycled wafer material that would have otherwise
been thrown out anyway.

So definetely a win, even if technically *maybe* more energy was used.

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