Ten Years

Al Gore wants to convert all the nations electricity production to "green" sources in the next ten years. Is that a pipe dream?

Yes, probably, but getting a start is a good idea anyway. There are multiple points economic and strategic. Our dangerous dependence on foreign oil is a continuing economic and strategic threat, and there is good reason to believe that CO2 is bad for the planet.

The US has little remaining oil, but the deserts of the Southwest get a tremendous amount of Sunlight that is barely exploited economically. My own feeling is that nuclear needs to be a big part of the mix, but it can't be the whole answer or even a major part for several decades - we simply can't create the infrastructure quickly enough.

Most of our oil is used for transportation, of course, but that could change too. Electric cars are coming, and electric railroads have existed before and could exist again.

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