Monday, November 24, 2008

Michelle Malkin » NBC’s failed sweeps stunt: The snowjob of Kilimanjaro
NBC’s botched climb would be comedy gold — worthy of a Saturday Night Live skit and endless Jay Leno mockery — if lives and truth weren’t at stake. Let NBC’s Snowjob of Kilimanjaro be an object lesson in the deadly serious consequences of enviro-nitwittery.
So when you consider all the manufacturing, installation, maintenance, land use, transmission lines, and lack of reliability, maybe you've got an energy source that's a non-starter without huge subsidies?
To put the supply chains behind clean energy technologies in perspective, a single wind turbine has more than 8,000 parts: cement, steel, ball bearings, copper wiring, and more. Demand for clean energy instantly creates new markets, new customers and new jobs for the companies and workers who make them.

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