Reply #8: What a crock of shit. The entire ground water system under San Jose California is

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contaminated forever because of the "green" semiconductor industry that operated there.

http://books.google.com/books?id=qfvlzm1A1vMC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=groundwater+San+Jose+tanks+leaking&source=bl&ots=3h1C02OMda&sig=RluoVRzwyqgxWCxchabHpd1Hwd4&hl=en&ei=NZzNSbG9IpPUlQfUnrTxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

The waste profile of solar energy is exactly the same as the semiconductor industry.

The reason that the toxic solar industry escapes attention for its huge external costs is that it is - and has been for the last 50 years - a trivial and meaningless form of energy, unreliable, costly, toxic and essentially useless.

If solar energy ever gets to one exajoule out of the 500 exajoules of energy now used by humanity, its toxic profile will become obvious. But it isn't there, won't be there, and probably shouldn't be there.