♫wind and wave together♫

CleanTechnica.com made a puzzling comparison between race and energy:

Somewhere in the U.S. there is a justice of the peace who still refuses to perform inter-racial marriages, but Principle Power, Inc. has no such backward looking qualms when it comes [to] marrying two different forms of sustainable energy.

hmmm....

While chocolate & arugula loves to find examples of the interplay between black & green in popular culture and, thus, is happy for the content, I am surprised by this comparative reference.

Tina Casey, the author, probably thought that this was simply a clever way to bridge two news bits. However, I think it reflects something deeper: the belief that energy technologies have identities which are rendered non-political by sustainability. That sustainability is a site where difference doesn't matter unlike the differences of race, gender and sexuality in human technologies such as the law, in which a white justice of the peace refuses to marry a white woman and a black man or when primarily heterosexual members of Congress refuse to work to enact civil laws that allow lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals to marry.

But before we start singing ♫wind and wave together♫--freedom song style--we must remember that the deployment of sustainable energy technologies is not divorced from politics, especially in our post-Katrina moment.