westend wrote:
I don't have a good source for green mattresses for 'ya but it seems Francesca's choice is a good one. I use simple upholstery foam for all my mattresses and don't have big concerns about disposal. In my area, all foam and mattresses go to a separate disposal chain that processes and reclaims the foam.
The video linked in one of the first posts has a lot of inaccuracies just as some of the following posts about solar arrays causing clear cutting and wind issues or wind power causing excessive bird death. I'd suggest that folks look at the facts and filter what they see and read. There are a lot of folks out there with an agenda that will push opinions as fact and, in some cases, are totally untrue.
OK. Just for fun. Say you want to use solar power to light a business, or town. Your want to put it in a area heavy with forest. The collectors can't be in the shade. Where you going to put them? I'll tell you. You are going to do what Apple did. You are going to clear cut enough acreage to put the calculated number of collectors. And when you do. You will be destroying hundreds of thousands of trees, and the habitat, and water shed they provide. I can drive you to a site near my home and show you the results. It takes a HUGE CLEAR CUT area. You can say they didn't clear cut it. But it WAS a thick forest. Now there are no trees period.