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12. It is terrible that we are taking oney out of schools and social programs to subsidize this...
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 03:38 PM
Oct 2016

...stuff.

It is, I think, given the awful environmental cost of electronic waste, a crime against the future.

We ought to subsidize clean energy, and the biggest lie in modern history is that solar energy is clean and sustainable.

It isn't, and it never will be. After a trillion dollars was "invested" in this stuff in the last ten years, much of it out of public funds that would be better spent elsewhere, the rate of accumulation of dangerous fossil fuel waste in the planetary atmosphere is the highest ever observed.

Solar energy didn't work; it isn't working; and it won't work.

In twenty or thirty years after your solar stuff has transformed into landfill, future generations will pay the real cost of your subsidy, not that we aren't paying right now.

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