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To: J-L-S who wrote (5808)	4/17/2005 1:40:24 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12411

>Be sure to subtract the number of BTUs it takes to manage a field of corn. This would include the BTU content of nitrogen fertilizer which must be applied, and also the BTUs burned with the use of farm machinery driving up and down the field all year long (spring tilling, planting seed, applying fertilizer, applying herbicide, harvesting corn, taking corn to the elevators, and fall tilling).< WAIT a second!! How about subtract all the money, resources and energy that it takes to make those solar cells!! Not to mention all of those poisonous materials used to manufacture all of those cells!!