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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 7, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Marie McHarry wrote:

> On 10/7/07, Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > It is more than roofs, farmers are selling huge chunks of the  
> > countryside
> > for solar panel and wind farms.  No matter how many solar panels  
> > or wind
> > farms or what ever, nothing comes any where close to crude oil for  
> > energy
> > invested vs energy returned and none will be able to fully replace  
> > the
> > millions of gallons of motor fuel.
> Yabbut, the more alternative energy, the less need for petroleum. I
> believe the Germans have decided not to add a couple of nuclear plants
> based on the energy generated via solar.
>
> As oil peaks, we're going to need all the alternatives, and the sooner
> we get them going, the better.

Pardon me for not having the source, but I recall recently reading a  
good article that made a good case for natural gas taking a big chunk  
of the energy load.