Al Gore’s Nutty Idea
July 25, 2008
Vince Carroll, Editor of the Denver, CO based Rocky Mountain News dissects Al Gore’s outrageous proposal to replace all power generation with renewable sources in the next 10 years”
Sphere: Related ContentThis would of course require utilities to mothball hundreds of existing power plants as they launched a crash construction program of solar plants, wind farms and transmission lines costing hundreds of billions and perhaps trillions of dollars. (To put this in perspective, T. Boone Pickens, another fellow who’s caught the wind-power bug, claims on his Web site, “Building wind facilities in the corridor that stretches from the Texas panhandle to North Dakota could produce 20 percent of the electricity for the United States at a cost of $1 trillion. It would take another $200 billion to build the capacity to transmit that energy to cities and towns.”)
“Many Americans have begun to wonder whether or not we’ve simply lost our appetite for bold policy solutions,” Gore worried during last week’s speech.
For bold solutions? No. But for nutty ones: Let’s dearly hope so.
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