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Al Gore on "Meet The Press"


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In it's entirety, watch Mr. Gore outline his plans for alternate sources of energy, his opinion of folks like T. Boone Pickens, why he's not interested in being Obama's running mate and much, much more.
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4 responses // Al Gore on "Meet The Press"

  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25761899/
    Here's the transcript. Enjoy reading along.
    Heck. Make it a real challenge by setting it to music.
    huntre
  • he talks about 12 cent kWh.

    2 weeks ago, the last time i checked directly with con ed (tristate area) for switching completely to wind power, it would be between 21 and 24 cents kWh (july 2008).

    such a reduction can definitively happen within 10 years, again, it is a matter of will.
    lfm
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  • The Al Gore interview left a gaping hole. Al Gore did not mention the elephant in the energy-independency room, namely nuclear power. Well - he's concerned only about renewables. But most amazingly, Tom Brokaw did not jump right in to ask him about nuclear energy, though that's the way the rest of the world is going. Instead TBrokaw spent all the available time on much less relevant questions. Shame on Tom Brokaw! He should inform himself on core facts before an interview. So Sad.
    markhalverson
  • Probably because there are still fundamental flaws with nuclear energy especially the waste produced by it that make it a lot less sustainable.

    If he was even saying that natural gas was less desirable then nuclear power has a lot more problems than that, so I think it wasn't because "ignoring the elephant in the room" it was because that was farther down the list of energy sources.

    It's not just about "independency" the part of the point that Gore was making was that since we have there is this choice of having to change the way we get energy because of the "dependency" anyway, why not at the same time go to more "renewable" sources that are going to last much longer so we don't have to do it again so soon?

    Including nuclear energy in that would just fall into the trap of having to get rid of it later when the waste problem gets out of hand since it's not "sustainable" enough to compete with solar and wind.

    His main point about the cost is that now that the present way of energy generation is going to be the same as the cost of changing to a more efficient and sustainable system so that benefit is that once the investment is made that it will pay for itself instead of continuing the downward spiral that the current system will engender.
    Argon18

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