Dear Editor:
I opened my Sunday paper to see a second letter about coal. It almost seems like a group or organization is writing theses instead of individuals. I could get into how China, a communist government and economy, actually did more harm to its people by leaving the pollution (not CO2 but real pollution) into the air. At times it gets so dark that even plants cannot grow in green houses because of a lack of sun light. I could even write about the toxic lakes that pollute farmland and children all to make the magnets used in creating wind turbines. Chinese farmers who live near these lakes are dying of cancer and other diseases, but at least they have free health care and hey they are making advances in renewable energy, yeah! A National Geographic article just came out with the toxic dangers of solar panels both in their creation and in their disposal, the article questioned how green they really are, but let's call coal evil.
However, I want to write about real innovation and the future like MIT came out with a new incandescent bulb that is just as efficient at LED's and could in the near future be more so. Yet thanks to regulations we can't make them cause there are no factories left in the USA. The really exciting news however is in diamond batteries created at the University of Bristol. Technically they aren't batteries but use nuclear waste (Carbon 14) to generate electricity. It would take over 5,000 years of continuous use to drop the power in them to 50 percent. With the promotion of this technology people could live off the grid, power cars, appliances and medical equipment for generations to come while cleaning up the environment of nuclear waste and put an end to the futile debate on climate change and fossil fuels. Fields will return to growing food not ethanol, our country side will no longer be blighted with ugly noisy windmills or power lines. Solar panels and their dangerous toxic chemicals will become a thing of the past. My favorite part will be when a man buys his fiancé a diamond ring he cannot only tell her the carats but how many volts it produces. Life will be good if we keep the eco alarmists from making new government regulations and taxes.