Peter Todd wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Good catch, Peter, I didn't know.

--Bob

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