Energy is clearly a very important issue.
Hew Crane raised many good points. I would like to address some of these issues he raises. My suggestion is that any energy dialog bring in these people and their figures and approaches. So, it is not fair to say renewables would use a similarly large amount of area and disregard this amount of space used by conventional techniques. Wind power over the last few years has become financially competitive with fossil fuels for peak power generation because of improvements in design and increasing production.