The US already has more nuclear plants that any other nation in the world. And the problem of disposal of waste fuel, still has yet to be adequately addressed. Most just store it, in some secret spot within the plant. Nice terrorist target. Geothermal energy has no waste byproducts, other than heat energy. But then all other large power plants have that too, except Hydroelectric. The advantage of having a smaller geothermal plant (in every town?) would be its smaller waste heat footprint.

What gets me is that O’Brien isn’t either smart or brave enough to call him out on these errors. Gore even thinks drill bits had to be designed to withstand this temperature. Ah, even if it really were that hot down there, no way in hell (literally) could drill bits take that kind of heat.

Here’s what I think IS the truth. Gore wants to KILL GEOTHERMAL ENERGY. He (and O’Brien too) were making it sound too dangerous to tap that kind of heat. O’Brien says drill down to a heat source sounds like an evil plot to kill Superman. Where’d the hell be get that, if not from Gore himself? What Gore isn’t tell us is that old giant Chevron, bought up and controls the worlds geothermal plants. That the technology is really decades old, and not so “relatively” new, as he claims. By that definition, atomic power is also fairly new. Anything developed after coal mining, is “new”. The reason Geothermal probably isn’t better known, is that energy monopolies would rather see one new nuclear plant constructed, than ten geothermal plants. So only a relative few “pilot” plants have ever been built in the US. With all the geological activity in the Rocky Mountain range. Geothermal energy should be super abundant. But Al Gore’s goal, I believe, is to create another De Beers of energy.

The US has an abundance of Coal. And the US abhor monopolies. At least in principle, it does. So price fixing and other such schemes are largely frowned upon. What better way to make energy cost more, especially in the US, than to thoroughly demonize what’s most plentiful. COAL! So basically coal use is evil, because we have so much of it, and big oil can’t totally dominate the energy market, with it around. So I believe Al Gore and chums are doing almost exactly what the Diamond industry did in the US. Keeping US diamond mining non-existent. Because of the US anti-monopoly laws, that would keep its pricing fair. So miraculously, no diamond mining exists in the US, in spite of there actually being known diamond ore in the US. Not to mention that artificial diamond making processes, are kept under strict control in the US. All this, just to maintain the pricing scheme of raw diamonds, world wide.

Not it’s Al Gore’s turn with Coal. It “evil” because he says so, and the US has so much of it. If the US had to import most of the coal it uses, just like oil. Gore probably would have no problem with that. So he only objects to plentiful forms of energy, not monopolized by an evil cabal, which he’s part of. And he’s also out to demonize geothermal energy. By confusing the ignorant public of the real facts. So that later, they’ll reject its use too.

Then Gore wants these people to agree not to burn fossil fuels. A lot of people in a lot of places are going to be much better off if the warming trend starts back up.

Sure a lot of people in a lot of places will be worse off.

Back a few hundred thousand years there were wild hippo in England. You think that was due to CO2 from burning fossil fuels? Climate is not stable.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SORCE/sorce_05.php

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Loehle_Divergence_CC.pdf

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/will-the-real-hockey-stick-please-stand-up/

But to deny a person of their theories is ludicrous. That’s practically preaching one does not have the right to voice their mind in anything…for example you morons.

Here’s what you do, take a look at the two photos and just say to yourself…”interesting concept, I wonder if it’ll really happen?” Whether you agree or not is beside the point. Whether you are smart enough to go and find more answers is another thing altogether.

Seriously in everyday life one does not live and breath without thinking of new things and coming up with new ideas. If you’re bashing them, PLEASE bash you head now.

Gotta ask who’s paying for your information. Is it an open peer reviewed scientist who doesn’t work for a company with a profit in the outcome? Or a paid “commercial” scientist who’s told what ‘outcome’ to find and then works backwards to cherry pick evidence to support his position? I’ll go with the open peer reviewed science, thanks, though I’m sure Exxon has some VERY qualified scientists working for them, just like Philip Morris did.

Excuse me? The entire Antarctica ice mass is on land…when it melts and breaks off it adds to the ocean. It’s the 5th largest continent, and it’s covered in a MILE thick sheet of ice.

#47 That’d go on par with Gore inventing problems that doesn’t exist.