Posted on 12/09/2009 11:02:09 AM PST by mkboyce
There are certain facts and figures in the course of daily life that should be instinctive common knowledge (e.g. There are 50 states in the United States, Obama!). This is particularly true for those who not only present themselves as experts in a given field (e.g. provocateurs of the globalclimatewarmingchange hysteria), but also those who present themselves as responsible, intelligent adults capable of leading others.
On a consistent basis, “Algore” laughably proves himself to be neither.
CONAN O'BRIEN: Now, what about ... you talk in the book about geothermal energy...
AL GORE, NOBEL LAUREATE: Yeah, yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth ...
GORE: Yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
GORE: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot"
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2404974/al_gores_science_illiteracy.html?cat=9
Rather, the interior of the earth is estimated to only be in the several thousand-degree range, which is more than sufficient to melt most rocks and yes, Albert, to cause water to bubble up. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of geology (i.e. your above-average 5th grader) would know this. A bit further down the road, say, after a high school level physics or astronomy course, and one would expect the student to know that the temperature of the interior of the sun is measured in the millions of degrees, resulting in an environment where the 4th state of matter, called plasma, readily exists. Moreover, they would also be expected to understand the paradigm shift that is the chasm between thousands of degrees and millions of degrees! An “interior of the earth” in the millions of degrees would render the entire earth -- metals and all -- into a flaming ball of plasma and gas. (Talk about global warming!)
Furthermore, along these lines, some knowledge about the mechanism that provides the enormous amounts of energy to create and sustain said heat -- again, high school level science -- would be expected. Thus, the difference in temperatures resulting from the decay of radioactive elements (i.e. within the earth, at several thousand degrees) and that which causes fusion chain reactions to occur (i.e. the interior of the sun or within thermonuclear detonations, at several million degrees), should be reflexively understood. Least of all by someone who arrogantly, if not insidiously wishes to control the entire world’s individual consumptive allotment based upon a PHONY science, though who can barely get even REAL elementary-level science correct.
Of course, what more can you expect from someone like “Algore”, who possesses a disturbing penchant for ostentatious self-promotion and exaggerated claims of accomplishment…signifying nothing.
- Marco
See, this is where Al Gore is wrong, everyone knows the interior of the eart is a Kajillion-Bazillion degrees. The guy needs to get a clue.
That quote should be front and center on Drudge.
Al Gore is a salesman and he’s selling.
That he works for a sinister group of billionaires intent on world control is simply speculation.
In a few decades the Gores of the day will be complaining about how we are taking heat away from deep in the earth and moving it on to the surface with all of our geothermal plants.
Aye, there’s the rub: no energy source can be positively tapped without negatively affecting something else.
Wind farms? birds, weather, planetary rotation.
Solar panels? “solar strip mining”, shadowing vast areas.
Hydro? drowning land, cooling rivers.
Nuclear? waste storage.
Congressional hot air? deficit spending.
Geothermal? cooling the core.
etc.
Polypragmatons (governmental busybodies) will always exist. We need to stop putting up with them, for they will never be satisfied even if we give them what they want.
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