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Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0724160209.htm

Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment.

Hypothetically flooding the entire province of Ontario, Canada, about 900,000 square km, with its entire 680,000 billion liters of rainfall, and storing it behind a 60 meter dam would only generate 80% of the total power output of Canada's 25 nuclear power stations

To obtain the same electricity from biomass as from a single nuclear power plant would require 2500 square kilometers of prime Iowa land.

To meet 2005 US electricity demand and assuming round-the-clock wind at the right speed, an area the size of Texas, approximately 780,000 square kilometers, would need to be covered with structures to extract, store, and transport the energy.

A photovoltaic solar cell plant would require painting black about 150 square kilometers plus land for storage and retrieval to equal a 1000 MWe nuclear plant.

"Renewables may be renewable but they are not green," asserts Ausubel", If we want to minimize new structures and the rape of nature, nuclear energy is the best option."