Examiner.com recently posted an article that obviously is not Al Gore friendly, titled “Just how stupid is Al Gore, anyway?”
See: http://www.examiner.com/x-31244-Louisville-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d3-Just-how-stupid-is-Al-Gore-anyway http://tinyurl.com/yddzj6m What piqued my curiosity was not the author’s AG bashing techniques but two comments he makes allegedly attributed to AG: > When enviro-loonies like Algore start talking about windmills, > cold fusion, solar and geothermal energy, just ask yourself: > “Gee, I wonder why folks aren’t already doing this, if it’s so > simple and so obvious.” ...and > “There are a number of problems with geothermal energy. > First of all, Gore was way off base in his description of > the temperature of the Earth’s mantle. You have to drill > down almost two miles, before you get enough heat to create > steam (100 degrees Celsius).” Regarding the first comment, I was not aware of the presumed implication that “cold fusion” had ever entered AG’s cross hairs. Is this true? Regarding the second comment, what are reliable figures on tapping into geothermal energy on an economical scale? Why I bring it up is that we are now technologically capable of drilling miles deep for oil, including from ocean floors of thousand feet deep, so... I haz to ask myself, just how difficult would it be to tap geothermal energy if a national program was started? Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
