10 Years to Green Energy.
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Climate clairvoyant Al Gore has laid out some ambitious new plans in a interview to the Associated Press yesterday previewing an upcoming speech.Gore, after giving both Obama and McCain their due, presented the energy crisis as an opportunity to turn every kilowatt of energy used in the US into green power.
Gore presented the investment in terms of the opportunity cost. The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group that Gore chairs, estimates the cost of transforming the nation to green electricity at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion over 30 years. But a roughly equal amount would be needed to build coal plants to satisfy demand.While noting that electricity itself does not account for the entirety of the emissions contributing to climate change, Gore sees this challenge as good first step: “If we meet this challenge we will solve the rest of it.”
By Robert Anton at The Element Agency in Vancouver