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Date:         Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:00:25 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Re; Solar power your VW
Comments: To: Gregory Baskin <GregBaskin@BIZ-DIRECT.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <200011012122.AA13828540@biz-direct.net>
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At 21:22 11/1/2000, Gregory Baskin wrote: >Well, Larry, I suppose my counterculture is showing -- using photovoltaics >allows one to avoid burning hydrocarbons and thus trashing the planet more >than it already is. It's so easy for us, as we toodle down the road in >our 4,000 pound love machines, to ignore the real damage we're inflicting >on our Mother Earth. 15 minutes of idling is 15 minutes of idling, and >some tangibly bad s*&t happens as a result. PV is, at least, less damaging.

But it ain't that simple, unfortunately. Making solar cells is a fairly dirty process too...tanstaafl.

david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation"


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