[RP TownTalk] Clean Energy Open House, Sat. 11/17

[cranky old coot]

Excuse me while I get my soapbox situated. OK the old coot is ready.

How can you have a informative balanced discussion about alternative 
energy in Takoma Park, a nuclear free zone?  There is no one answer to 
the problem of providing the energy the world is projected to need and 
maintain the life we have become accustom to. Nor can we afford to 
exclude an answer that already provides 20% of our electricity and 80% 
of Frances.

I do hope the 17th is a sunny day do the cookies will bake.  Monday 
there was an interesting story on NPR about how the U.S. drive for 
ethanol has caused U.S. farmers to grow more corn. Which has reduced the 
U.S. production of soybeans, which has caused Brazilian farmers to try 
to grow more to meet the world protein need by burning the Amazon rain 
forest. Net balance in CO2?

We need to look at the total picture, all the effects, the total cost of 
each solution to a problem.

In that light, how many acres of Amazon rain forest are required to run 
a tofu-powered lawn mower? And what does that have to do with native 
landscape?

This is fun but I have to go to the periodontist.

Old coot's keeper,

Lou

Rob Oppenheim wrote:
> For those interested in learning about alternative energy and reduced 
> CO2, the clean energy home in nearby Takoma Park is again on display...
>
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