Al Gore on Clean Coal

[htiberian]

he didn't say anything about nuclear

[IvantheRevelator]

I got a song on my channel about clean coal. Check it out! Or don't. Who cares at this point, we're all going to melt soon anyway.

[Merplov]

@AMilitantAgnostic Why would Al Gore have bin a bad president? 

[Merplov]

If Gore had been president in 2000, things would have worked out much better. For example the foreign policy, he would have been much more active in enviromental issues than Bush, Bush didnt do much about enviromental issues at all.

[AMilitantAgnostic]

@Merplov If you think either of them was a viable choice you're an idiot.

[LiberalJerseyman]

Al Gore was elected president in 2000. Bush stole the election. 

[WKHalford]

What Al Bore fails to take into account when he says more CO2 is produced per unit of energy with coal is the benefits when the coal byproducts are turned into usable raw materials and usable chemicals. For instance, the sulfur dioxide is turned into either sulfuric acid or gypsum. The slag is used in asphalt, in place of sand for sandblast media, and in concrete. The fly ash replaces volcanic ash used to make concrete.

So does Al Bore not think these things reduce coal's negative impacts?

[rxc128]

If the pollution is scrubbed out and only C02 remains, Bingo, then it's clean coal.

This asshole is such a bloody liar it makes me sick. He is making a fortune from Global Warming/Climate Change bullshit.

[granddad2002]

Nuclear energy is viable; the only draw back is that plant designs are going to have to deal with radio-toxicity issues? getting 10-50 years worth of commercial electricity, but having a waste product that must be safely stored for 1000+ years is no trivial matter. But nukes can be built anywhere; generally you want them safe and cost effective is part of an operation cycle. Geothermal and advanced synthetic fuels should be on this list.

[MinorCheese777]

Wow. He is super cerial.

[crazyinsane500]

Oh perfect, we didn't cover Nuclear energy. Guess that backwards car explained it probably.

[videofeedbacktv]

that car going backwards looks like a glitch on the matrix

[PersonalJesus348]

Lol @ Al Gore's Sigh.  That's awesome.

[HumanRights4Everyone]

So what about Nuclear!?

[mech12478]

al gore cant talk without lieing through his teeth.

[SkaterKidx15]

thumbs up for the car going backwards haha

[maybachlover15]

backwards car hehe 0:15

[Phelan666]

@maybachlover15 wat is this i don't even

[PoorMansPlato]

Al is such PIMP! pimping Fake-Ass Global Warming to sell his Fake -Ass Carbon Credit Scam, Bernie Madoff wishes he invented such a sweet scam and would get paid by Eco-Idiots to Pimp It!

[david52875]

@PoorMansPlato ARE YOU CEREAL?!?!? ManBearPig is TOTALLY REAL!!! are you stupid or - oh wait you said global warming lol sorry.

[MrBullseye61]

Co2 does not cause Global Warming! It causes tree and plant growth, wich in turn cause more Oxygen production Good for Mankind, DUH!

[harvinsi]

@MrBullseye61 True but it hasnt actually worked out like you might think. The levels of CO2 in the air since we began measuring it about 100 years ago have increased by 50% whereas the levels of oxygen (O2) have remained constant.

[rmontena01]

If global warming does not exist or if it does, who cares. What we should care about? Is making ways to have cleaner energy so our waterways, our air can be clean again, and our children can breathe fresh air. That is what should be at the core of this discussion. Does it exist? I believe it does and alot of others, including scientists believe it does.

My question is thie: Do you want to take a chance and ignore what everyone is saying? Or do you want to get things done?

[Thisawareness]

China Moves Forward:Healthy Cigarettes

China Huaneng Group, targets a capacity to produce about 35 percent of its electricity from clean energy by 2020

What Al Gore didn't excerpt, however:

The company plans to complete the construction of the countrys first power plant that converts coal into cleaner-burning gas before the end of next year, Cao said.

Odd. Does this mean Al Gore has switched his stance on clean coal and it's no longer like a "healthy cigarette?"

[Lobos222]

I would just like to point out something that is more efficient than ground solar panel or wind mills.

Its space solar panels and its happening soon.

What it is. Its solar panels in space that focus the light to a source in space that produce the electricity. The electricity is then converted to microwaves in space and sent to earth where its converted back to electricity and distributed. You lose some energy along the way, but its way less than solar energy loose going through the atmosphere.

[SmokzTrueno]

You know its interesting that according to this video Al Gore wouldn't specifically be against clean coal. He's just saying it needs more time and some serious investment. Stop saying your going to built clean coal plants and just hurry up and built the damn plant already.

[njcody]

If humans stopped using everything that requiered energy to produce (ie cars, harvesting and medical equipment) we would decrease the world temperature by not even a degree. When are people going to realize Global Warming is not the issue, it's finding cheaper ways of producing energy, which tends to be more efficient anyway?

[Beastmasterification]

So where did Al Gore get his degree in Mechanical Engineering? What is his degree?

[missysplace68]

wake up people,coal is what keeps the lights on..if you dont like it..call your electric co. tommorrow and tell them to turn it off..need to check out alot of the factories they put more pollution in the air..obama already stated that your electric bills will skyrocket..some of these old people that are on fixed incomes cant afford it..plus 18,000 miners in ky alone,coal truck drivers,equipment operators,will be out of work,reclaim workers,can you go back to the old days with no electric/water

[Swidhelm]

In the interest of progress though, people loose their jobs. And in the interest of having a planet to live on those losses are acceptable. It sucks balls I know. My job just got ganked from under me, replaced by a machine. But I'd rather than and have air to breath than a dead planet.

[flubno]

Clean coal is like saying clean dirt .

[kapaimedia]

oh for fucks sake this is such poorly made propaganda, it's actually quite boring

[kadenblake]

look at that little geek holding that lap top

he has no clue

al gore the earth has been warming since the ice age

if it wasnt it would still be the ice age

who is payin BIG GAY AL to support this thoery

[SuckersTillTheEnd]

You live on the Virgin Islands so it's not surprising you don't think coal is a problem (pollution probably gets blown away before it can substantially affect you). Come to the mainland, specifically near a big city and ingest glorious pollution every day of your life. I don't care if global warming is man caused or not. I want clean air, water etc for other reasons (my health)

[duke1244]

@SuckersTillTheEnd there is no such thing in global warming

[porkypinekiwi]

@SuckersTillTheEnd yea try living in fairbanks alaska where the smog just hangs around the ground all year

[kadenblake]

i dont think these 2 geeks know where the power came from to power that little laptop!

i think he sprinkled ferry dust on it!

AL gore hes just laughable

[kellygiz]

I think they do know where it came from. That's why they are talking about it.

[alterdcrash]

global warming was purposly made to enslave the fools,repent

[666MrClean]

This Man is a fuckin Hack, a fake and a phony, evil at its best!!!! al Gore u r soooo evil I love you !!!!! now go to hell!!!

[disneyrangerblue02]

Well, one of these days, I hope in the near-future, there WILL be clean coal. Sure, it doesn't exist right now, but man can hope, can't he?

[disneyrangerblue02]

Of course, with the economy going down, and everything, we might not have a chance. What we need is to bring the Reagan years back!

[xxPowerOnxx]

exactly.

[disneyrangerblue02]

The only thing stopping us-in this situation-is how to do it.

Do you suppose we could make a petition to bring back the Reagan Years?

[IQ174]

Reagan canceled Carter's solar energy tax credits and subsidized the big oil companies, who paid for his election. They now import 70% of our petroleum. Reagan created the environment than led to Bush's oil-related war, based on Dick Cheneys LIES about non-existent Weapons Of Mass Destruction. If we had maintained Carters plan for energy independence in 8 years, there would have been no $3 Trillion war in Iraq. RETURN TO REAGAN? NEVER! ZERO Emissions - Zero Energy Design

[gerbinator2009]

Well as of last week, the EPA officially defined CO2 as a pollutant. That's right, when you or any other animal exhales, you are destroying the earth!!

The uncontrolled breathing must be stopped!

I think the best way to reduce CO2 output from humans is to ration how much Al Gore gets to talk. Just think how much warmer our planet is because of him constantly spewing CO2 from that hole in his face. It's the best of both worlds! We save the planet and we don't have to hear his propaganda!

[Pandonodrim]

More insane gibbirish from people who don't know anything.

The EPA isn't going to regulate people's breathing. It's said that CO2 from industrial sources can be considered a pollutant.

They still haven't actually enforced that ruling.

[gerbinator2009]

How is CO2 from industrial sources different from the CO2 we exhale?

[Pandonodrim]

It's extremely different. The source of the CO2 from industrial sources comes from fossil fuels that have been buried for millions of years underground, sequestered in stasis. Cyclical CO2 (from animals to plants, to ocean, etc.) is not the problem, and never has been.

[soldier4242]

Sheer volume.

[junkyardnut]

Why is everyone ignoring firewood, farm burning, charcoal briquettes, etc as the worst sources of air pollution... 803 , you are not making any sense at all!

[junkyardnut]

Al Gore would never dare utter the word or phrase "Firewood is dirty, too"... never ! He sidestepped firewood!!

[junkyardnut]

You are just trying to replace coal with even worse ... firewood! and paying through your nose for that...

[junkyardnut]

If there is an utility that uses firewood for electricity generation, Al Gore will tell you that firewood generate CO2. Firewood is still under the radar so far... Someday , firewood will be banned anyway..

[junkyardnut]

First, ban firewood then graduate to clean coal and so on... Firewood is the worst of all hands down yet everyone think it is so romantic that you want to curl up and read a book by it... hoo boy!

[803honda]

ban firewood? lol thats the most rediculous thing I ever heard.

in the imperialism state not many folks use firewood and its smoggy as hell.

here in federally occupied South Carolina everybody burns firewood and we have clean fresh country air.

[junkyardnut]

hell, it is not even closed captioning!

[sondano]

I want his laptop

[dylanyoung22]

"clean coal is deceptive". just like your global warming theory mr. gore. so is your theory. temperature raises co2...co2 does not raise temperature

[duke1244]

@dylanyoung22 no such thing in global warming... the ice is not melting its expanding...

[Jacnas]

He sounds reasonable and is roughly correct about offshore drilling (it won't save you; america's benn post peak oil for almost half a century now, deal with it). What makes americans go so mental whenever they see him?

[TrooperRaven]

Perhaps because he is a fake.

[CamiloSanchez1979]

i think the kid got really excited when he said offshore "drilling". *cough*FAG*cough*

[Williamsfan]

Yes, and the well informed and wise. He's a bastion of hope for good people of all types!

[TrooperRaven]

Well said, Trooper.

[TrooperRaven]

Algore plays well with the naive and young.

[Dutchoven08]

Such a shame that Gore didn't pick up the phone and tell Candidate Obama that he was spreading disinformation in his speeches televised to millions during the '08 Democratic Primaries and in the nationally televised debates gong head to head against McShame.

Poor ol'Bamma, missed a huge advantage over his opponent. But just as well, two twin-party candidates both plugging "Clean Coal" at every opportunity. Along with Biden and Palin.. four Corporate parrots and they Won?

We lost.

Nader '12

[marxdesign]

Global warming is from CO2 in the air..... People are the problem! We breathe out CO2. The increasing population is killing the planet. Kill someone today and save the planet. Start with Gore before he gives himself another award or writes another book..

[CircusMaximus09]

Why don't we just plug up Gore and pooof no more CO2

[commiebobo]

ignoring the problem won't make it go away. gore is telling us there's a problem. shutting him up isn't going to help. stop driving SUVs and demand clean energy. that WILL solve the problem

[CircusMaximus09]

What do you understand and know about energy? I guess nothing...Al Gore is pushing this bs to secure a J-O-B for himself. BTW-did you turn on your lights this evening? Where the hell do you think the power comes from?

[Williamsfan]

Mr. Gore is independantly wealthy. Don't be a blowhard.

[CircusMaximus09]

Demonstrate that there is a problem...just because Big Al says it is doesn't make it so

[ruppertknickerbocker]

They didn't mention the yuppie suv's and cars that dump tons more pollutants in our country ever day or the millions of miles of asphalt roads that catch the suns heat increasing the earths temp.

[ruppertknickerbocker]

Al Gore was on 60 minutes talking about the environment while driving a huge chevy pickup. What a hypocrite.

[KevZen2000]

Al Gore is a con man.

[atursix]

algore is an idiot. But all that the frigging clown doing the interview can apparently do is nod his head and mumble in agreement every once in a while. What a sycophant to lunacy.

[johnnyahah37]

i laugh at gore with his huge house and private. all you suckers follow this guy as his "green" mutual fun racks up a ton of money.

we exhale co2 every 3 seconds...whats next...tax my breathing and farting.

[Martinl792002]

lock box....

[kmg501]

Just to point out one thing that is wrong with what Gore said.

You can not currently bury high power lines in the ground without tremendous expense and more damage to the land. There are very good reasons why power lines the world over are on towers, even into suburban areas. You don't really see lines buried until it comes to large metro areas where the costs and engineering practicalities make sense.

Of course anyone that cares about life on Earth wants a clean planet, it's HOW we do that.

[victor2cutube]

power lines are on towers because it is easier to do maintenance. there would be no more damage to the land than there is building towers. after reclaimation it will be like a gas line or towers open area.

[geekprogrammered]

you have that backwards, buddy. It's eaiser to to maintenance *because* power lines are on towers. Think about what extra costs there would be if you had to dig every time any maintenance needed to be done. And what happens when someone finds out that some species of dessert gerbil can't stand the digging? Power lines are on towers because all those things have already been hashed out years ago.

"Your ORANGE, you moron!" -- Greg House

[victor2cutube]

you're an orange moron ??

[goodoleboy17]

we all know that the real threat to the environment is ManBearPig

[BlueTyphoid]

what the fuck he didnt say anything about nuclear

[nate7181]

Gore is a moron,

CO2 is plant food, and there is no proof that CO2 causes global warming.

Environmentalism has costed us the the auto industry, the auto industry cannot make a profit with the CAFE standards.

Conservation is not progress, it inhibits progress, and will give our children a lower standard of living.

[ElYanMan]

Nate7181 is a moron

Not only does every credible scientist on the planet refute your remarks, your understanding of CAFE and global economics is laughable.

The big 3 will go down from their own greed, CAFE has nothing to do with the fact that they simply produced cars that no one wants (or can afford) to drive. Their only interest was their own bloated paychecks.

Stick to commenting on "Jackass" clips and Britney Spears videos.

[jonnyjmpup]

Gore is a liar and a dreamer.What is not mentioned is "electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket" from Obama's lips to your ear.

[gluton4beer]

this company has alot of money in it.

what would happen if it turns out that global warming is not manmade?what would happen to that 5 billion wrapped up in Al's company?

there is more money to be made from saying that the world is coming to an end than if you refute manmade global warming.

all i am saying is that when someone tells u that the science is in and debate is over, while other people are saying otherwise.its fishy

when is the science ever done

they are still studing gravity

[gluton4beer]

when government requires carbon offsets how much money will Al and his company make?

[ntuman]

powered by Mac

[turnkit]

Al Gore's "science" and knowledge is accountable to no one. He's not a scientist who has to publish peer-reviewed articles. He just cherry picks his facts or makes them up and as a politician pronounces solutions. He ins't accountable nor reliable. I don't trust this man more than I would any other politician who wants political power to control for who knows what motive. Al Gore hasn't demonstrated where his motives come from. I don't trust him at all.

[elinmoco]

That's just it, there are no motives. There are no advantages to telling the truth. No money to be made. Money is where you will find corruption and lies. The facts exist, don't listen to corperate lies.

[gluton4beer]

no motives? really? notice how he so easily knocks down all forms of energy that exist? then goes on to say that the only way to save the world is to invest in things that dont exist yet. have you checked to see if maybe he might be getting money from people that make wind mills.

btw if you are a climate scientist and you receive grant money ,almost all global warming advocates do, will they get more money if they say there is or is not global warming?

[elinmoco]

I haven't checked to see if maybe he might be getting money from people that make windmills. Have you? Show me the facts, not just paranoid fantasies. Keep spreading the hate. Peace

[gluton4beer]

keep spreading hate? wtf?

i think i possed a pretty logical question.

if you are a climate scientist chances are that you make money and are funded by various grants. now if your findings indicate that the earth is going through a normal climate shift like the ones that have happened long before manmade co2 emissions and there is not much to worry about, what will happen to his funding?

if you want to make money as a scientist and get attention than u say global warming is real

[gluton4beer]

so I did a little research and found out that Al founded a company called generation investment management. they sell carbon offsets. like the ones Al buys so that he can fly on his G5 guilt free. so he is buying offsets from himself. and they in turn "invest" in windmills and solar panels.

we know that these things are not viable on their own so they require public funding. that requires a crisis.

"paranoid fantasies?" nope, cold hard facts.

Al Gore profits from global warming.

[seseneca]

If you did some "research", please cite your sources. If you don't cite sources then why should we believe you?

[gluton4beer]

sorry about that im only givin 500 words.

i encourage you to go to generation investment management's web site. just cut and paste its easy to find,then go to team. you may notice some other names, david blood former chief executive of goldman sachs. peter knight Al's chief of staff.

i encourage you to look for yourself.

the sources are endless.

what sources did you ask of Al?

have you looked at the increasing numbers of reputable scientist that disagree with Al?

[gluton4beer]

hey elinmoco, i showed you the facts. what do you have to say now?

would you care to explain to my how asking questions is spreading hate? or is that just another baseless smrear directed towards someone the dares to disagree with you.

typical left wing fearmonger hypocricy.

keep spreading ignorance."peace"

[GlobalWarmingNotReal]

Al Gore is a liar.

[FFDmh2223]

CleanER coal technology does exist. There is a company called Rentech that takes coal and turns it into gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel and other products that burn cleanER. It is not as clean as solar which has no pollution but that is a matter of semantics. CleanER coal technology exists.

[FFDmh2223]

global warming is real, it is not proven that recent(past100yrs) climate change is man-made, The only thing we can prove right now is that climate change is a natural cycle that occurs on this planet.

[mysonyps3]

Gore lost me when he claimed he invented the Internet!

Clean Coal? Doesn't know what he's talking about. Even Obama knows about it! Any fuel source burned Catalytically w/90+% Eff. is going to produce similar pollution & gases near nil. What he doesn't know about is "Blue Gas"? Google: GreatPoint Energy Catalytic Coal Methanation

Can be Transported & burned like Natural Gas! Gore can still keep his pool heated 80* in Winter! Another politician who says one thing and does another! :D

[SlevinKelevra21]

Dude, really? When are people going to get over the fact that he may have mispoken slightly how many years ago? The man won the Nobel Peace Prize. Jeez.

[SlevinKelevra21]

Dude, really? When are people going to get over the fact that he may have mispoken slightly how many years ago? The man won the Nobel Peace Prize. Jeez.

[mysonyps3]

Yeah....Global Warming! ....when the core of the earth is cooling and local weather has seen the longest coldest Winter in a 100yrs. In fact last year the whole Northern hemisphere had the coldest Winter in ages! ;)

He basically doesn't support anything except technologies his wife has money in, which is Wind and Solar! ...and come on Nobel Peace Prize has become the Nobel Piss Prize lately!

[nuggetman415]

Global Warming is happening, but it is far from man made.

[ddude7]

MANBEARPIG

[chone7]

how can people buy this! not even in the streets. wierd!

[rickyleigh]

Al gore says first thing to do is "conservation and efficency". LowellGarrett is right. Al Gore uses so much fucking electricity he should own a solar panel or two but he wastes energy. He is trying to make a comeback to win an election. GLOBAL WARMING ISN'T REAL. just look at the link between solar flares and the Earth's average temperature. IT IS A SCAM. Al Gore makes money off this bullshit. IT'S LIKE CANCER ANOTHER SCAM.

[LowellGarrett]

I don't know about "oxy" but I sure believe I see a "moron". Turn out half your lights at home, putz, and save the world

[GlobalWarmingNotReal]

Al Gore is such a dumbass.

[notanerdlingerrr]

anybody who thinks global warming is not real is a dumbass. there is NOTHING that disproves the evidence that global warming is real. why are people still denying the truth?? go look up some facts!

[DirtyHarrywk]

AGREE 100%... The difference is what causes it. You dumb-ass libs think global warming is man made. A volcano does more damage then anythinf.

[grodik]

The argument isn't if it's man-made, it's ignorant people who think that. The argument is if humans are speeding it up and making it worse, because the last time global warming happened, humans didn't have combustion engines. What do I think? I think we are speeding it up, but we won't actually know until global warming gets to it's peak and the world starts to cool down.

[notanerdlingerrr]

grodik: yes! i think we are speeding it up too and definitely making it worse.

[notanerdlingerrr]

DirtyHarrywk: the problem isn't if humans cause a lot or a little of global warming, it's the fact that we are contributing to it. we can do something about our effects on the world and we should be focusing on what that is, not blaming other things we can't control.

[mikeandsteveparody24]

we need C02

[captaindiesalot]

Al Gore...still talking shit...nice interviewer.."oh, it sounds good on paper..." oooooooh...he's just such a genius.

[2girlsand1cone]

man.

bear.

pig.

[nextdeath12]

I'm super serial! Why won't anybody believe me? No one is taking me serial!!!

[disneyrangerblue02]

You know, for a minute there, I thought you said "super sentai." Good thing I double-checked. lol

[romblen]

This guy dosen't know what he's talking about. I'm from Wyoming where we have several coal mines.

We do have clean coal, most of our equipment actually goes to cleaning. Their highest pollutant right now is mercury. About 2 gallons of mercury comes out a year.Their looking to cut that in half.

[PersonalJesus348]

your an idiot. There is no such technology available.

[romblen]

It costs a lot, but yes, we do. We have extremly high cleaning standards. The stacks we have basicly make cloads

[Pdiamond221]

you're an idiot. . .ever heard of acid rain?

[mogul1265]

Your a stupid fucking goddam dick sucking nigger sucking whore bitch, they can develop it. How was that? Mean enough?

[PersonalJesus348]

you just came across as retarded. With that said I guess its no wonder you didn't achieve your goal.

[mogul1265]

Na you were the retard by calling the other guy an idiot because he didnt buy into the global warming BS introduced via a *YOUR KILLING THE EARTH!!! guilt trip. And who said anything about a goal? I was calling you name. (shrugs)

[PersonalJesus348]

looks like you need to go back to school and learn proper discourse. You said "How was that? Mean enough?". So your even more of a retard than I had initially thought. You might need some retalin.

[oseattleo]

ooh BURN! you know maybe some ppl just dont spend their whole day tryin to perfect youtube comments with perfect grammer lol Why are you such a retarded bitch? Did you mom have chlamydia or something? Stupid name too. Fuck you pussy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PersonalJesus348]

looks like a retard that stays together flames together. I wasn't commenting on his grammar.

[DeNnaceTheMeNaCE]

Al Gore is Bill Clinton's right hand man during the wonderful Clinton administration....

I hate South Park guys for making him seem so silly .... This guy is one of the very few in power that are trying to make things happen as far as clean energy .. & guess what??? Obama and Biden are also fighting for this to happen its going to be tough but we'll make it !!

[kjv720]

Nobody listens to Al Gore especially about that man bear pig lol jk XD

[rgbDigital]

Love you Al.

[dumbwise]

Build a 'smart grid'? Would his 10,000 square foot house be on this smart grid or will he continue to need his own coal-fired plant?

[theblackwidower]

Did he talk about nuclear power? I don't think he did. Kevin should have went back to that.

[propagandeclan]

Listen to the last thing he says, he mentions that energy is burned. Mmm... let's think about that.

[gnosticbeemer]

It is too bad that the interview did not last long enough for Al Gore to respond to the last part of the original multiple part question; the last part asking his view of nuclear energy.

[gnosticbeemer]

It would also be incorrect to think that uranium fission is the only way to do artificial (human designed) nuclear energy.

[gnosticbeemer]

I agree with Al Gore that clean coal is a misnomer and that solar energy is a good way to go. However it should be remembered that solar energy is nuclear energy where the natural nuclear reactor happens to be 94 million miles away. Solar is good it because nuclear is good. Nuclear is good because it is not chemical and leaves no undesired chemicals behind. Instead of going 94 million miles away for our nuclear energy we should consider accessing our abundant nuclear energy on the lithosphere.

[chemequilibrium]

No undesirable chemicals behind? Radioactive waste that needs to be stored for thousands to hundreds of thousands of years before it can be exposed again? Remember that human civilization has existed for hardly a few thousand years. And then consider geologic activity. There's hardly any safe place to put anything for that long.

[gnosticbeemer]

Plutonium is a man made element. Its radioactivity is dangerous. Its radioactivity is a nuclear, not a chemical, property. Please read my following comment where I state that uranium fission is not the only way to access nuclear energy. It is not nuclear energy itself but the way that we are doing it that is the problem.

[chemequilibrium]

Okay, good catch. But that's like saying, "I didn't stab him; I shot him." What makes nuclear waste any safer than chemical waste?

And the only other way to get net gain of energy from nuclear resources is fusion, and there is no practical way to access that in a controlled manner. Nor is there any progress that suggests that will happen in the near future, if ever.

[gnosticbeemer]

Your concerns about the disposal of waste from uranium fission are well founded. However my position is that there are nuclear methods beyond U fission and hydrogen fusion. The method that I have in mind does not produce harmful byproducts. This method can not be deployed to make bombs. Its purpose is the production of electricity without a carbon footprint. The isotopes required are relatively abundant. I hope that Al Gore and Dr. Chu will be interested.

[drumsnbass]

at present, there is no such thing as AlGore and rational intelligence.

coal provides 49% of ALL of the US electric power. I want to see this moran get away with powering his megahouse without coal power out there.

as for 'offshore drilling' AlGore, DEPLETION is the word moran -- DEPLETION. We will NOT turn this country in the next two dozen years at best. Without replacement for depeltion, we are screwed. Wait till Mexico imports go offline in two years -- you'l wish for offshore!

[gnosticbeemer]

I have searched my Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary for the word "moran." I can not find it there. The Moran's (proper name) that I have known seem like perfectly good people to me. Are you associating Al Gore with that family? Is there a family connection? If so which Moran did you have in mind?

[trushinogul]

Mr. Gore and myself obviously have different views on what Clean Coal is. We've actually had Clean Coal technology for several years, in fact there is very little technology involved. Instead of directly burning the coal, a flame would be blown onto a filter made of a certain catalyst (I forget what exactly, I learned about this 2 years ago) which does deteriorate, but is simply cycled through to be reused. This different method of burning removes about 99% of the carbon, so it still is CO2.

[econogate]

Please read "Alcohol can be a Gas" or just google the videos on it.

[12354blahbla]

FlRST!!! WHAT NOW MOFUCKERS!

[ortzinator]

1 view lolz

[AwesomePictures]

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