Green Energy is a Threat to the Environment

....or so you would think after reading this story in the Washington Post. As a nation, we are going to have to grow up. We're going to have to recognize that there is no free lunch, and that if we are going to pursue the laudable and related goals of carbon footprint reduction AND a reduction in our reliance on foreign oil, there may be costs. Sometimes those costs will be a reduction in prairie grouse mating areas.

Wind and solar will be a part of our future, but we'll need to understand that two things are required for either to be effective--lots of land and a way to transport the power from the source to the grid. Neither of these certainties floats the boats of the environmental crowd, who continue to be deluded by the notion that we can conserve our way to energy security.