Letters to the Editor
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Is that even a relevant question?
We could clone whales by the million and chop them up for oil too. But that's not really the direction we want to head in.
No the fact is that any long run solution is going to be a mixture of things just like it is now. A little solar a little fission, some oil/coal/gas, a little wind, a little algae and anything else they can come up with. That's the only rational approach. Anyone's who's waiting for the Gigantic Magical Monkeywrench is just delaying real solutions to engineering and economic problems for the sake of ideology. Does soalr pollute across its lifecycle?
EVERYTHING pollutes across its lifecycle. Anytime you make, break, process or recycle something you're creating some kind of pollute, waste or throwoff energy. Hells Bells, recycling paper uses mercury and sulfuric acid.