Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/21/2008 8:20:45 AM PDT by cassy.kane
Al Gore did not claim he invented electricity last Thursday. But the words he uttered in his challenge on energy carried just as much fantasy.
According to Gore, the goal of producing every kilowatt of the nation’s electricity from carbon-free renewable sources like solar, wind, and geothermal within 10 years is not a far-fetched vision.
In his address at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, Gore challenged America to abandon its fossil fuel usage altogether.
"This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative,” the former vice president said.
To achieve Gore’s lofty objective, the American way of life will indeed need to undergo major transformation. And such transformation will not be affordable by any technological means.
The Alliance for Climate Protection, a supposedly bipartisan group Gore leads, estimates the costs of transforming the U.S. to clean electricity sources at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion over 30 years in public and private money. That’s an investment of about 30 percent of a year of America’s Gross Domestic Product.
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Algore is so discusting he makes my teeth hurt!! Everytime he opens his huge mouth, Americans all hurt as he tells us all to bend over! He is making millions on the Global Warming....and how you and I made it all happen!
he has BIG oney invested in alternative energy. Taking advantage of people who believe him to line his own pockets and making the rest of us suffer.
Dispicable
As soon as algore gives up his affluent life style, ie., private plane, big house, suvs, etc., let me know.
Ditto.
Obviously Americas daughters generally have become mentally challenged.. pity.. They've pretty much all become retards.. A hall full of retards lectured by a retard about retarded ideas.. On the other-hand there is a symmetry about it all..
Yeah, transformative to his portfolio.
He ought to shave his eyebrows and hair off so he can star in the remake of John Waters’ “Pink Flamingos” with its attendant recycling at the film’s end..
He won’t do that because he wants you and I to change our lifestyle while he travels around the world as the new hope for the future. Give libs a little and they take it all if it is out there! They are bent of socialism for us all.
Damn, I just had lunch, and now I have to get that image out of my mind .... eeeeeeeWWW!!!
“Carbon-free” electricity is a chimera, an impossible and totally imaginary and unrealizable dream, a phantasmagoria that seems always to be in a state of flux, but never really exists at all.
Just MAKING the machinery that converts all these “carbon-free” sources of energy to electricity leaves its own “carbon footprint”.
But that aside, there is no climate “cure”. We rely on carbon-based fuel, and the excess carbon dioxide merely goes into accelerated and extended plant growth. So long as we encourage plant growth at every juncture, by cultivation and land management, the content of carbon dioxide shall never rise above about 0.05% concentration in the atmosphere.
Plants require carbon dioxide to conduct photosynthesis, and greenhouses may enrich their atmospheres with additional CO2 to boost plant growth, since its low present-day atmosphere concentration is just above the “suffocation” level for green plants. A photosynthesis-related drop in carbon dioxide concentration in a greenhouse compartment can kill green plants.
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