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...best solar energy capturing machine is the green plant," Calvin said, adding "We have to go back to using it as we did 100 or 150 years...
...first problem with this "solution" is the continuation of the "Band-Aid" approach to our economic woes--a practice that becomes increasingly popular in election years. Recent studies have suggested that plants involved in arms manufacture can be converted to such necessary industries as mass transportation, solar energy, and solid waste disposal, using many of the present technologies. The federal government alone could create this change, first by reducing its own purchases of arms and restricting the sale of U.S. arms around the globe, then by offering loans to firms and communities planning conversion of munitions works. This would...
...security is not military, but rather our parasitical dependence on potentially hostile nations for energy. The solution to this problem, instead of selling fighter planes for a quick "fix" of cash that can buy a few more barrels, is a concentrated program of developing alternate energy sources (such as solar or synthetic fuels) and curbing our wasteful energy habits (by the increased use of mass transportation, for example). Only by viewing this as a crucial matter of "national security" can such a comprehensive change come about--after all, that's how we got the national highway system...
...conference is designed to teach participants how to save money and energy through solar energy, insulating homes and modifying oil burners...
...Neill added he will start a solar energy program. "We in politics have treated solar energy almost as if it has been an exotic art, and the reason for that is that it has not been affordable to middle-income and lower-income people," he said, adding that solar energy is now much less expensive...