Shining the light on our readers.
by Stephanie J. Church
August 28, 2008
In CircuiTree’s August issue, several of our regular
columnists tackled the topic of photovoltaics. In his Fein-Lines column, Dan
Feinberg wondered if photovoltaics is perhaps the best opportunity since plated
through-hole, catching the eye of one of our readers in Poland. Both of them were kind
enough to let me share their exchange with you. We always love to hear from our
readers, whether as a response on one of our blogs, a note on the bulletin
board, or emails to us or directly to our columnists. Stay in touch, enjoy the
following, and let us know if you have anything further to add.
Dear Mr. Feinberg,
…I am a marketing specialist employed in the top Polish PCB
producing factory—ELDOS Co. Ltd.—located in Wroclaw,
engaged in creating marketing position of our factory in Poland and the
European Union.
As a frequent reader of CircuiTree…my boss got
interested in the photovoltaic business (much heard about it recently) as a way
of diversifying our offer to the market.
He asked me to make abstracts of the three main positions on
photovoltaics in the August issue—yours, that of Karl Dietz, and of Happy
Holden.
While trying to translate your text to Polish, I found the
second sentence in your article beginning with “Let me start off by saying…Al
Gore is a genius for riding that horse as long as he can” very confusing.
First, you declare that you do not believe in manmade global
warming (possibly, you are right) and than you state that “global warming is
the best business strategy of the last decade,” which is completely misguiding
to me.
Do you want to say that the topic of unquestioned global
process (glaciers of Greenland and Arctic), no
matter man- or not manmade, is cynically exploited by world businesses and the
process should be continued? How about Mr. Al Gore, who is personally engaged
in the fight with the human contribution to the Earth’s atmosphere (am I
wrong?)?
Please help me understand your intentions, so that I could
be convinced the Americans are working hard on eliminating CO2 emissions for
the benefits of all mankind.
With best regards,
Szczepan Kuczwara, Kierownik
Dział Marketingu
Dan's response:
Dear Szczepan Kuczwara,
Thank you for reading and for your response to my column.
Please forgive my American slang and for being facetious. Basically what I said
is that in my opinion, Al Gore is helping to create a false sense of panic,
which he then makes a lot of money on through his carbon offset company. By
hyping global warming he is creating a bigger market for a business that he
owns part of and therefore he makes a great deal of money. While I do not agree
with him I have to admire his money making strategy. Much of what Al Gore says
is junk science in my humble opinion but he, like many others, has his agenda.
Let me give you an example of misguided priorities, In
Europe you have RoHS, which requires the elimination of lead in solder. So
45,000 (aprox.) wave solder machines around the world have to go lead free and
therefore raise their temperatures 15 to 20 °C. How much more power, how much
more oil must be burned to heat all those thousands of units to higher
temperatures? Has this been calculated into the equation? When you consider
that many of those are in China
where pollution issues have not been as much of a concern, I make a case that
the total effect of lead-free laws on the earth, even though made with good
intentions, has been negative.
I cannot speak for what all Americans do, just as you cannot
be held responsible personally for the poorly thought out lead-free laws, but I
can tell you that I personally have solar electric power in my home as well as
solar hot water. I will be adding even more solar this year. I use low-power
(LED and florescent) lighting. I do personally believe that we should reduce
the use of fossil fuels for various reasons. Do I believe in manmade global
warming based on the cyclical temperature readings in the ‘90s? Absolutely
not!! I believe that the past five and the next 10 years’ readings will prove
me correct. To all things there is a cycle.
Dan (Baer) Feinberg
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