The Problem With "Green" Energy
Well, there are a lot of them actually. But the main problem with green energy is that it isn't very green.
(The following was originally a Facebook comment in response to this article, "The US Is Littered With More Than 14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines".)
by Rod D. Martin
November 18, 2011
This is the problem. Everyone wants the whole world to "go Green" on the unstated, utterly impossible premise that all forms of energy are equal, and that the only reason we use one over the other is some big conspiracy somewhere. Most of the people talking -- and encouraged to talk by leftist politicians and by industry people looking for huge government subsidies -- don't have the slightest idea about different forms of energy: they've just been fed this big bill of goods and spew out simplistic demands that are wholly infeasible.
We use oil because there's lots of it, it's a liquid (so you can store it in a tank), and it produces a LOT of energy when you burn it. Ethanol produces a LOT less energy when you burn it, and takes a LOT more energy to produce in the first place (not to mention, we use corn to pro…