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Damn! You and I are on the same wavelength.

"Alternative" energy systems - intended to "save" our asses - DON'T.

Everything is an energy balance. Altamont Pass in California, falls on the ridge that separates the cool, moist coastal area from the arid interior.. The cool, dense air passing over the ridge is the ideal force for driving windmills, so thousands have been erected, generating megawatt after megawatt of power.

unfortunately, nobody bothered to think about the fact that the trapping of the energy by the windmills has extracted all of the energy out of the air stream, and that moist air is no longer being delivered to the valley beyond. What used to be reasonably rich agricultural land is now a desert.

When you turn on the lights of your car, you actually get less gas mileage than you do if you don't have the lights on. The decrease may be infinitesimal therefore unknown-or at least undetected-but it is real.

We erect millions of square meters of solar cells. At solar flux is no longer reaching the earth, even if it is a desert environment, but do we have any idea what that is doing to the ecology of the earth?.

The simple fact is that our entire ecology is a giant energy balance, and we're doing everything we can to throw it off kilter.

Population control really is the only cure to our problems.