Al Gore - Repower America with Renewables

 

There is no question that Al Gore understands the issue. But can he move “the people” to make a change. His speech, A Generational Challenge to Repower America was specifically aimed at motivating the people.

One common thread runs through America’s issues with security, environment and the economy - carbon based fuels.

“Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges at the same time, we can see the common thread running through them, deeply ironic in its simplicity: our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges – the economic, environmental and national security crises. We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change. But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard, all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that we’re holding the answer to all of them right in our hand.”

Let’s hope he is successful in moving the people towards “producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”

For sure the large power utilities will fight this every step of the way. They will lose much of their central control as the government takes control of transmission facilities - put the lines where we can generate the power.. And we decentralize some of the production via millions of household solar PV systems.

We have everything that is required today… except the WILL POWER.

See a list BY STATE, of how much GHG is produced to make 1 KWH of electricity: GHG to Make Electricity

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