Gale on Energy Alternatives

Gale’s column is marred by a severe misstatement. His claim that “solar energy is a popular alternative. However, it is also currently inadequate, and present technologies result in a loss of lives and production of toxic wastes of comparable or greater magnitude as nuclear energy” is so far off the mark as to make this reader wonder where Gale gets his information from.

Any consistent reader of the L.A. Times has seen numerous articles published in The Times on solar power by experts whose general consensus is that, in general, solar power produces little or no pollution. Finally, the reason solar power is “inadequate” is that this technology has received only 1/1000 of the government subsidies of nuclear power.

BERNADETTE L. LOCH

Bellflower