Gores challanging electricity plan

[Faithfulee]

On Meet the Press yesterday, Al Gore presented his plan to get us off carbon based electricty in 10 years.  He is proposing "green" energy in the form of windmills.

The proposal is idiotic, impossibe to achieve, and not in the consumers interest to even try.  He made no mention o Nuclear, a proven environmenally sensitive source, an omission that makes on wonder why he is given any credibility at all.

And to top that off,  Gore's electricty usage in his new 10,000 sq ft home, Gore uses ten times the electricy of a normal Tennessean.

According to the AP (not the conservative think tank that originally broke this story), Gore’s electricity bill averaged $1200 a month last year, while using 191,000 kilowatt-hours. (Compared to an average Nashville household usage of 15,600 kwh.) That comes to $14,400 in electricity expenses, which is around 7.5 cents a kilowatt-hour.

Gore claims that  this is "green energy" but the fact is that it is electricity that is the same as that ordinary American produce.  He didn't answer why he needs 10 times more electricty  than the average consumer.

Al Gore is a dangerous hypocrite, and the wonder is whey anyone gives him the time of day.

[Faithfulee]

A sane comment on the Gore idiocy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668313890771925.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today

In Mr. Gore's prophesy, a transition to carbon-free electricity generation in a decade is "achievable, affordable and transformative." He believes that the goal can be achieved almost entirely through the use of "renewables" alone, meaning solar, geothermal, wind power and biofuels.
And he doesn't think we really have any other good options: "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," he says, with his usual gift for understatement. "And even more -- if more should be required -- the future of human civilization is at stake."

silly hyperbole.  He doesn't even mention nuclear, that is a real prospect.

Mr. Gore's case would also be helped if our experience of renewable sources were a positive one. It isn't. In his useful book "Gusher of Lies," Robert Bryce notes that "in July 2006, wind turbines in California produced power at only about 10% of their capacity; in Texas, one of the most promising states for wind energy, the windmills produced electricity at about 17% of their rated capacity." Like wind power, solar power also suffers from the problem of intermittency, which means that it has to be backed up by conventional sources in order to avoid disruptions. This is especially true of hot summers when the wind doesn't blow and cold winters when the sun doesn't shine.

Again demonstrating the idiocy of the idea that wind is THE dependable source of Electricty.

In fact, we need to develop all sources and especially to drill here, drill now, and pay less.