FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE SEEKS TO ‘OVERHAUL’ ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ CAPITALISM

The Blaze ^ | 2/16/2012 | Becket Adams

[antidemoncrat]

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says that he wants to end the practice of quarterly earnings guidance and “explore issuing loyalty-driven securities,” according to Reuters.

Why?

Because he believes that there needs to be an “overhaul of capitalism,” which he says, in its current form, has turned the world’s leading economies into “hotbeds” of irresponsible behavior.

[antidemoncrat]

I guess since the Global Warming scam didn't work, Al had to find a new job.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is this the same Algore who issued some worthless securities representing some weird thing called "carbon credits" that he wanted to force everyone to buy?

How'd that work out for you Al?

[jacquej]

and we are supposed to listen to a yahoo who flunked out of bible school?

Shuuure!

[boop]

Isn’t Al Gore the High Priest of hypocrisy? An anticapitalist who’s become worth 300 million, based completely on lies, a guy who wants everyone else to conserve energy, yet has a house with a heated indoor pool and uses 20 times in a month what a “little person” uses in an entire year, a guy with 4 kids who worries about overpopulation, a guy who wants us all to drive Chevy Volts and cut down on unnecessary travel, yet flies by private jet and stretch limos, a guy who thinks the government should crack down on unhealthy eating, yet weighs roughly 250lbs.?

[SandRat]

Al Gore: Texas Post Turtle, Total Idiot

[big bad easter bunny]

I think he should try eating contests.

[eeriegeno]

I guess since the Global Warming scam didn't work, Al had to find a new job.

I disagree. The GW scam worked well for AlGore. He managed to scam $100 million from the unsuspecting to his own bank account! I call that a successful scam........

[Lady Lucky]

In a sane society, Algore would be in a sanitarium. And I don’t say that about many.

[Pru]

Might want to start with the arrest of Jon Corzine! Fat chance . . .

[Pru]

Might want to start with the arrest of Jon Corzine! Fat chance . . .

[stboz]

It’s time to take out the trash....whether it wants to leave or not.

[muawiyah]

The Algore has a lot of stuff sitting around unused. Tipper perhaps? We see her at the store regularly when she's in town shopping for her folks. Some guy who wouldn't even need a lot of money has a shot there ~

But getting beyond that, Al has stuff and stuff has value, and the first thing to do to overhaul his own part of irresponsible capitalism is to take it away from him and give it to me.

I can oversee it quite responsibly.

And no, Tipper has to go somewhere else.

[flat]

I guess since the Global Warming scam didn’t work, Al had to find a new job.......

well al is a-wadin into the WIDE world of cable tv with that RED HOT new offerin ..CURRENT TV....it’s burnin up the airways....and that new cenk guy.... he’s wide, a huckleberry... and a turk to ...and big eddie he’s really really wide........so.......

[maggief]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire

Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

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http://resources.bnet.com/topic/kleiner+perkins+caufield+&+byers.html

Former Secretary Colin Powell Named Strategic Limited Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers KPCB — an innovator in providing venture and relationship capitalSM services to entrepreneurs — announced former Secretary of State Colin Powell has become a KPCB strategic limited partner.

http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?ID=216496&R=R1

US SunShot initiative backs promising solar firms with $5.8m

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has handed out $5.8m to a quartet of promising solar technology companies as part of its high-profile SunShot Incubator programme.

Tigo Energy was given more than $3m to pilot a low-cost DC arc-fault detector, which is designed to enhance the safety of PV arrays while reducing operations and maintenance costs for system owners.

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http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?ID=216496&R=R1

Al Gore invests $10m. in Israeli solar energy projects
By YUVAL AZULAI / GLOBES
04/13/2011 20:19

Gore’s cleantech fund to finance Tigo Energy Inc., which develops solutions to maximize output by photovoltaic installations.

Tigo Energy Inc. has raised $10 million in its third financing round plus a $10 million credit line from Climate Solutions Fund LP, managed Generation Investment Management LLP, whose chairman is former US Vice President Al Gore. Tigo develops solutions to maximize output by photovoltaic installations.

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http://amonix.com/news/it%E2%80%99s-official-cogentrix-90m-doe-loan-guarantee-30mw-cpv-project?page=1

It’s Official: Cogentrix $90M DOE Loan Guarantee for 30MW CPV Project
Date of Publication:
09/09/2011
Publication:
GreenTechMedia

The concentrated photovoltaic market is stirring. A few weeks ago, we brought news of the largest CPV project in the U.S. Developments from SolFocus, Soitec, Solar Junction, and Amonix continue to make the news.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu just made the $90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix official this morning for the construction of the Alamosa Solar Generating Project, a 30-megawatt high concentration solar photovoltaic (HCPV) project in south-central Colorado. That 30 megawatts would hold the title as the largest CPV project in the world when it is completed at its target of mid-2012.

Cogentrix, a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, estimates that the project will create about 100 construction jobs and 10 operations jobs. The project will source over 80 percent of its components from the U.S. Most of Cogentrix’ previous projects have been for fossil fuel plants.

Cogentrix plans to use the mammoth concentrating panels from CPV veteran Amonix, the Kleiner Perkins- and Westly Group-backed solar hardware supplier. Ben Kortlang, the KPCB partner on the Amonix board of directors, spent eight years at Goldman Sachs prior to his Kleiner Perkins role and investment in Amonix.

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[bray]

Hows that TV channel working out for you GorebAl Warming?