Reader’s View: Clean energy isn’t clean, but problematic

However, transitioning to grossly inefficient, resource-gobbling, environment-damaging, short-lived wind and solar projects is probably not “cleaner” — and it has brought a host of problems. The vast majority of their rated power that wind and solar fail to deliver must be generated by plants that primarily burn natural gas, which creates more carbon dioxide. In addition, natural gas is 90% methane, which is 80 times worse than carbon dioxide for decades. That leakage is negating the gains we’ve made by cutting back on coal. Our legislators apparently have not done the science. Instead, they have listened to the industries that profit from building and maintaining these carbon-reliant frauds. Their mantra has been jobs and money, not the environment, and we are going to pay a terrible price. Every…

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