Letter: Let’s focus on clean, renewable energy

Don Gale unwittingly spreads fossil fuel industry misinformation when he claims “we could cover the state with solar panels and windmills and it still wouldn’t provide enough electricity to handle predictable needs.”A 2013 report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looked at the land use requirement to power the entire United States using solar energy. Based on conservative assumptions, the conclusion was that approximately 22,000 square miles of solar farm would genera