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Is solar energy a viable solution to reducing oil dependence?

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over the last decade. The United Nation's IPCC which promotes this fraudulent scare mongering should be ignored (preferably sued) otherwise the world will descend further into economic chaos. This has already started due to the dodgy financial systems promoted by US bankers and financial "experts" of Wall Street. As President Putin of Russia is reported as saying " You Americans started it all and caused this chaos". However, maybe we can also lay blame on the Europeans (EU) for promoting all the bunkum about global warming and promoting a useless and harmful "Emission Trading Scheme" to remedy this non-problem.

Let's forget about who is to blame and consider what to do about it all.

Once you accept the true state of affairs, that is that CO2 gas is an essential component of the atmosphere for life to exist and that more of it is a good thing then the best path ahead is obvious.

The world economy is totally dependent on oil for transport fuels and petrochemicals which maintain our present high standard of living. I predict that this will be so FOR EVER because the properties of element carbon and its derivatives are so unique that there are no adequate substitutes. Viva Carbon!

Also, I predict that in the year 2100, your descendants will be happily driving a GM? product (or Toyota) automobile fueled by gasoline, diesel or LPG.

Obviously, Professor Chu, the Director of the National Laboratory in Berkeley has got it wrong.

It would be more sensible if the objectives of this high powered laboratory were rotated 180 degrees and they concentrated on how to get "more bangs for the buck" out of fossil fuels.

Forget about Al Gore and his religious mania and get back to science!

For starters, immediately the US should get rid of Government restrictions on drilling for oil both on and off shore, so as to boost domestic production. Ditto impediments on construction of thermal and nuclear power stations. Requirements for utility companies to produce 10 or 20% of power from renewable resources should be abolished, this just being part of the Green's eco-religious nonsense.

Research and development should concentrate on finding better, and more efficient ways of getting hydrocarbon fuels from coal and oil, and of generating electricity, without undue pollution, bearing in mind that atmospheric CO2 is NOT a pollutant.

Let us squeeze the last drop of oil out of the fields we know about. Let's find new oil fields that we suspect exist. Let's query the traditional theory of oil formation.

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Is solar energy a viable solution to reducing oil dependence?

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by Allan Taylor

No, solar energy is not the solution to reducing US oil dependency.
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by Rayne Britt

Solar energy is an excellent source of natural energy but it is not now, nor will it ever be, a viable option to relieve
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Yes

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by Don Haslett

Even the most casual observer should have little doubt that solar energy can provide a key piece of the solution to reducing
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by Gary C. Gibson

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