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Posted by Frank Pittel on July 20, 2008, 2:48 pm
I challenge algore to limit his energy consumption to that of an
average family and to follow his own advice. This means cutting the
energy consumption of his mansion. It also meansgiving up the limos
and riding a bicycle to where he wants to go. My guess is that he's
going to miss the lear jet the most.
: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/gores-challenge.html#more
: Gore???s Challenge to the US: 100% Zero-Carbon Electricity in 10 Years
: 17 July 2008
: In a major speech given today at the DAR Constitution Hall in
: Washington DC, former Vice President Al Gore challenged the US to end
: its reliance on carbon-based fuels and to ???commit to producing 100
: percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean
: carbon-free sources within 10 years.???
: While the primary focus of his speech was on power generation, Gore
: noted that the value and efficiency of an advanced, unified national
: power grid could be further increased by helping the auto industry
: switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars. ???An electric
: vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce
: pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid.???
: Gore said that the combination of serious economic, environmental and
: national security crises the US faces represent a ???present danger???
: that puts ???the survival of the United States of America as we know
: it...at risk.??? The common core of all of these challenges, he said, is
: ???our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels.???
: A few years ago, it would not have been possible to issue such a
: challenge. But here???s what???s changed: the sharp cost reductions now
: beginning to take place in solar, wind, and geothermal power???coupled
: with the recent dramatic price increases for oil and coal???have
: radically changed the economics of energy.
: ...To those who argue that we do not yet have the technology to
: accomplish these results with renewable energy: I ask them to come
: with me to meet the entrepreneurs who will drive this revolution. I???ve
: seen what they are doing and I have no doubt that we can meet this
: challenge.
: To those who say the costs are still too high: I ask them to
: consider whether the costs of oil and coal will ever stop increasing
: if we keep relying on quickly depleting energy sources to feed a
: rapidly growing demand all around the world. When demand for oil and
: coal increases, their price goes up. When demand for solar cells
: increases, the price often comes down.
: ...To those who say 10 years is not enough time, I respectfully
: ask them to consider what the world???s scientists are telling us about
: the risks we face if we don???t act in 10 years. The leading experts
: predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in
: our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover
: from this environmental crisis. When the use of oil and coal goes up,
: pollution goes up. When the use of solar, wind and geothermal
: increases, pollution comes down.
: ...I for one do not believe our country can withstand 10 more
: years of the status quo. Our families cannot stand 10 more years of
: gas price increases. Our workers cannot stand 10 more years of job
: losses and outsourcing of factories. Our economy cannot stand 10 more
: years of sending $2 billion every 24 hours to foreign countries for
: oil. And our soldiers and their families cannot take another 10 years
: of repeated troop deployments to dangerous regions that just happen to
: have large oil supplies.
: What could we do instead for the next 10 years? What should we do
: during the next 10 years? Some of our greatest accomplishments as a
: nation have resulted from commitments to reach a goal that fell well
: beyond the next election: the Marshall Plan, Social Security, the
: interstate highway system. But a political promise to do something 40
: years from now is universally ignored because everyone knows that it???s
: meaningless. Ten years is about the maximum time that we as a nation
: can hold a steady aim and hit our target.
: Reaching the goal of 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years faces a
: number of obstacles, Gore noted, including the lack of a unified
: national grid sufficiently advanced to link areas with good potential
: for wind and solar power generation to the rest of the country.
: Our national electric grid is critical infrastructure, as vital to
: the health and security of our economy as our highways and
: telecommunication networks. Today, our grids are antiquated, fragile,
: and vulnerable to cascading failure. Power outages and defects in the
: current grid system cost US businesses more than $120 billion dollars
: a year. It has to be upgraded anyway.
: ...We are on the eve of a presidential election. We are in the
: midst of an international climate treaty process that will conclude
: its work before the end of the first year of the new president???s term.
: It is a great error to say that the United States must wait for others
: to join us in this matter. In fact, we must move first, because that
: is the key to getting others to follow; and because moving first is in
: our own national interest. So I ask you to join with me to call on
: every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge???for America
: to be running on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity in 10 years. It'???
: time for us to move beyond empty rhetoric. We need to act now.
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Posted by Pvt. Ryan on July 20, 2008, 3:17 pm
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What Gore does not understand is that zero carbon electricty will not come
cheap. It takes tremendous amount of research to make it happen even so
commodity used to produce ZCE is free. Although hedgtards were already
allowed to trade weather futures so who knows what implications of that
stupid decision could be ...
Gore should also remember he is one who allowed Bush presidency which ended
bankrupting the country. Gore's talk is cheap but unfortunately it cannot be
used to produce ZCE
>I challenge algore to limit his energy consumption to that of an
> average family and to follow his own advice. This means cutting the
> energy consumption of his mansion. It also meansgiving up the limos
> and riding a bicycle to where he wants to go. My guess is that he's
> going to miss the lear jet the most.
>
>
> : http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/gores-challenge.html#more
>
> : Gore???s Challenge to the US: 100% Zero-Carbon Electricity in 10 Years
> : 17 July 2008
>
> : In a major speech given today at the DAR Constitution Hall in
> : Washington DC, former Vice President Al Gore challenged the US to end
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Posted by Spartakus on July 20, 2008, 6:53 pm
> I challenge algore to limit his energy consumption to that of an
> average family and to follow his own advice.
Would that be an average family with several extended family members;
that runs multiple, fully-staffed offices in its place of residence?
If that's what you mean by "average family", the Gores are already
there and then some.
> This means cutting the energy consumption of his mansion. It also
> means giving up the limos and riding a bicycle to where he wants
> to go.
But then you wouldn't be able to complain the "Al Gore is FAT".
> My guess is that he's
> going to miss the lear jet the most.
Not as much as you'd miss whining about the Gore family. But you'd
find something else to whine about, wouldn't you?
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