She makes at least as much sense as McCain does, and she’s “hawt” to boot. Too bad her “limited” off shore oil drilling plan won’t work since it won’t produce a DROP of oil for at least 10 years. Al Gore in the mean time says America can be oil-power FREE by the time those same 10 years are up!
I know Gore’s plan can be done - the States built a fleet of the world’s most feared and powerful military planes and military vehicles in less than 5 years (and that was 60 years ago!). They can do the same (minus the fear part) with their existing civilian fleet of cars and planes, and rejuvenate the Rust Belt at the same time. Better still, they don’t have to ship the new fleet over to France, Germany, and Japan because the point is to use them at home instead.
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Oldschool | 11-Aug-08 at 4:58 pm | Permalink
Al Goar says oil free in 10 years.
Like how???
Al is demonstrating what a total moron he is, unless we all plan to live in caves and ride a burrow.
Right now . . . there is no technology today that could replace oil in the forseable future . . . fact!!!
But of course Al never let facts get in his way . . . just look at the GW nonsense he promotes, then he uses 20 times the energy that normal people use, while he makes millions selling Carbon Credits to suckers.
Saskboy | 11-Aug-08 at 5:20 pm | Permalink
Oldschool, check out http://www.wecansolveit.org/ and watch Gore’s speech that lauched it. It’s pretty inspirational, even an old coot like yourself might get something inspiring out of it, especially since you probably remember both JFK and the moon landing.
And it’s not a fact that we can’t be oil free in 10 years with minor adjustments to our daily usage patterns, and drastic changes to new manufacturing and vehicle sectors of our economy.
Zach Bell | 11-Aug-08 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
“Right now . . . there is no technology today that could replace oil in the forseable future . . . fact!!!”
Erm as Saskboy says, that’s hardly a fact. It’s an incredibly stupid presumptive line of BS but hardly what i would call a fact.
Gore’s plan isn’t without its merits but franklym, anything coming out of his mouth holds very little water with me. I know there’s a joke in that statement somewhere but I can’t think of it right now.
I think a global effort to take advantage of solar energy would be incredibly neat. If anyone would like to read two facts that are verifiable and true, here they come.
FACT: The sun hits the planet with enough energy to satisfy the entire planet’s power consumption requirements every…single…hour.
FACT: If we could some up with a way to collect solar energy at a 100% rate of efficiency, we would need to place solar panels on only 58,278 square kilometres of land. If all nations shared in this responsibility, that would only be an average of about 250 square kilometres per country. Even the poorest nations could make this possible.
The only took me a minute with a calculator and a love of making smart people look stupid through complication.
Frankly the energy debate is full of nonsensical stupidity. Too many involved in the debate are there to present complicated and unrealistic ideas that serve their own interests. Hydrogen fuel cells for instance are a ridiculous solution when we have 100% market viable electric vehicle technology.
*sigh*
Zach Bell | 11-Aug-08 at 6:20 pm | Permalink
Hmm…do typos make people look stupid too? Dang.
Zach Bell | 11-Aug-08 at 10:09 pm | Permalink
Check it out, solar cells that are 42.8% efficient and getting better every year.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=49483
*sigh* Solving the energy crisis is a very simple prospect.
Sorry Saskboy. I don’t mean to spam your comments section, I just start to obsess about an idea once I start trying to work it through. Even with existing technology, solar energy replacing all of our energy needs is a viable plan if there were a world power network. 500 square kilometres of land for solar panels is not at all unimaginable for every nation on the planet.
Heck…start putting them on top of buildings everywhere.
media boy | 11-Aug-08 at 10:20 pm | Permalink
Paris obviously has some marketing savvy; she can turn anything into a PR boost for herself… thx to McCain’s miscalculation, she’ll be selling more cans of wine than ever
Saskboy | 12-Aug-08 at 10:54 am | Permalink
You’re not spamming Zach, you’re quite welcome to be as verbose as you want if it’s even close to being on topic — I’m not paying for webspace. You’ll never manage to out-talk the only spam-commenter I’ve ever had around here, who posted about 400 words each time, about 150 times. I think he was a tad obsessive.
Paris is no fool when it comes to getting attention. Unfortunately she’s a fool in almost every other regard, which doesn’t suit someone who has a lot of attention.
Huffb1 contacted me with an interesting question. How can farms go oil free in 10 years? Any ideas people?
Louise | 12-Aug-08 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
Turn their fields over to solar collectors. Simple. Who needs food, anyway?
Saskboy | 12-Aug-08 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
An interesting idea Louise. And with the electricity gathered, a way may be found to easily move the energy to green houses located closer to people, reducing the need for tractors, and road transport of food? In some situations it might work, once transmission of electricity is improved, and solar collector efficiency is improved too. I don’t know how efficient plants are at capturing solar energy, it’s probably not close to 100% either.
huffb1 | 12-Aug-08 at 4:28 pm | Permalink
Well, that is one solution. Thanks for trying to find an answer. As technology improves they maybe more answers.
Zach Bell | 12-Aug-08 at 4:53 pm | Permalink
Converting farm fields to solar collection fields is a great idea. Imagine a farmer selling electricity. How does the farmer power equipment needed to maintain the solar farm? Well that answer is quite obvious of course…he’s “growing” energy after all.
One other way for a farm to go oil free is also to convert to hemp farming and bio-diesel production. Henry Ford observed that a field of hemp could produce enough fuel to power the equipment that tilled it for 100 years.
As obsessed as I am though about hemp farming and its environmental logic, solar energy farming is even better.
About 7% of Canada’s total land area is used for farming and that includes live stock. That comes out to about 698,962 square kilometres of land used for food. We export currently more food than we import.
Wowza…looking at the numbers is truly amazing to me. Canada could power the entire planet by converting only 17-20 percent of its farmland into solar farms.
hehehehe. Oh I gotta blog about this. It’s all mental masturbation but it’s a lot of fun.