Breaking News! When he said green was not green, I saw red.

In an article, that is receiving international play, in the current issue of an academic journal the author proclaims nuclear power as green. Then he claims renewable sources of energy were not green and would cause serious environmental harm.

I felt he needed immediate rebuttal, and made my first video "Green is Still Green" in order to counteract the author's claims. The full version is available on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6670068800228271067

And I also broke it down into segments for YouTube. The first segment is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJqZZBlSaU

The journal author's argument is based on a measurement tool of his own making -- the amount of power generated per square meter. On this shaky foundation he builds improbable scenarios where biomass, wind, solar and hydro power would take up vast amounts of land and prove ruinous to the nation.

What's worse, he implicitly rejects future conservation efforts as well as the impact of current and future technologies that are going to transform energy production over the next five years.

The appropriate response to future energy needs is to reduce energy demand and to incorporate a blend of commercially viable, local, renewable energy sources, creating energy where it is used. -- Jack Star

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