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To: Eric who wrote (5434)	2/27/2009 4:16:18 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

When I look at the total impacts that coal fired generation has had on our world and the many thousands of people that have died just as a result of mining coal not to mention the health effects on all of us this proposal has a lot of merit. You need to research how many toxic chemicals are involved in producing solar panels. Ask yourself why we have so many solar panels manufactured in China and not here? earth2tech.com Weiss' research focuses on trace gases like nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, a greenhouse gas 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide., NF3 is commonly used in the manufacture of electronics and some solar panels. The gas is confined but a fraction often escapes during the process. In October, Weiss and other scientists found NF3 levels were increasing at 11 percent each year, although the cause is unclear. Production of some other panels involves another gas called sulfur hexafluoride -- the most potent greenhouse gas known to science. voiceofsandiego.org We're exporting our manufacturing pollution to China, where regulations and oversight are relaxed. Were environmental policies to be imposed in an egalitarian manner across the planet, China would be little more productive than the US. Hawk