[The Red Zone]

and you make blanket statements that are not sourced

Footnotes, we don't need no steekin footnotes!

Doubtless Boot's main point is valid, that solar is way oversold (and too bad it won't work to cover Washington state with photocells, we have to pick on poor New Mexico), but as an engineer I hope to see something I can verify.

[rollin]

Between 1980 and 1982, the Japanese spent US$75 million evaluating all types of alternate energy devices in actual working conditions.

At the end, the conclusion was not politically-acceptable. The only real solution is nuclear power or a variant.

While wind, solar, and water are pushed because of their so-called clean attributes, in the end, they don't have the capacity to provide the necessary wattage.

If you can get a copy from the Japanese Ministry of Trade, it would be a real eye-opener. But then, zealots are hard to convince particularly when they have an agenda to push and are unwilling to look at data.