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From: Michael N. Monce [mailto:mnmon@CONNCOLL.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:56 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Fuel Cells and "green" energy
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dr. Tom Wayburn wrote:
Party, for example,
P.S. This type of thinking completely eludes the Green
which hung up the phone in my ear whilst I was explainingthis spot of
bother. Hang-the-messenger still applies.I just recently got hung out to dry by a student group and
some faculty
after they announced they had convinced our Board to pay 20%
more on our
electric costs for 30% of our electric needs by buying the
electrons from
a so-called "green" coop. This coop supposedly supplies the elctricity
from only hydro, solar, and wind. I asked the question as to
whether the
college had really researched the environmental costs of each of these
so-called green sources; citing the impossibility of skirting
around the
Second Law. The geophysicist in our department, whose specialty is
hydrology, also complained bitterly about the consequences of
hydroelectric. We were chastised quite a bit for pointing out such
issues. There's a lot of physics education to be done with
the public in
the energy arena.
Michael Monce
Connecticut College