Alternative energy talk ignores real world

May 5, 2006 SPECTRUM/Penny Nixon The loony left has declared that the Earth is flat, energy can be created from nothing, gravity does not exist, and money grows on trees. Mr. Rose, writing about “alternative energy” in the April 26 edition of the Anchorage newspaper, asserts that Alaska will sell its “last drop of oil by midcentury,” then claims that Alaska has the “wind, geothermal and biomass resource potential to challenge Iowa in renewable energy production,” and that � villages are laboratories to use as remote wind generating systems.” He then