Another Gore Conflict of Interest

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Another Gore Conflict of Interest

EXCLUSIVE: Apple’s hydrogen power plans fueled by Al Gore’s conflict of interest?

Written By Gene J. Koprowski

Published April 09, 2012 FoxNews.com

A conservative think tank is making fresh conflict of interest allegations against consumer electronics giant Apple and its most famous board member, former vice president and green energy advocate Al Gore.

Apple plans to fuel a new data center in suburban Charlotte, N.C., partly by two dozen hydrogen power units from Bloom -- a revolutionary power company. But the National Center for Public Policy Research thinks the real winner may be not the planet, but the former vice president.

"Fuel cells are among the world's most expensive forms of generating electricity,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project. “Apple buying technology from Bloom Energy, where Gore has a financial stake, is a clear conflict of interest.”

[camle]

is this grounds for a shareholder lawsuit?

[KarlInOhio]

Apple plans to fuel a new data center in suburban Charlotte, N.C., partly by two dozen hydrogen power units from Bloom

Where does the hydrogen come from? There is just about no free hydrogen just sitting out in the environment, so the hydrogen has to come from using some energy to split its atoms from some other chemical compound. It would be more efficient to use just about any of those energy sources directly rather than having a energy->hydrogen->energy stage wasting some of the energy. Some arguments could be made for having hydrogen powered vehicles when the original energy supply is not portable, and possibly for solar panels to split water into hydrogen and oxygen to be used at night.

I think most hydrogen used industrially comes from cracking methane in natural gas, but for a energy source it would be far better to just burn the natural gas rather than turn it into hydrogen.

[Brad from Tennessee]

By 2009 Gore's knack for enriching himself and his partners, from the billions governments spend on global warming scams, became so blatant even the New York Times couldn't ignore it. In the article titled “Gore's Dual Role: Advocate and Investor” Gore's modus operandi is depicted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environment/03gore.html?_r=1

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Why don’t just burn water. I mean it’s like, you know, H2O. What burns better than hydrogen and water, man? Of course, what we gonna do with all the ashes?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Dude, lissen up, that stuff is dangerous: http://www.dhmo.org/

[molson209]

How many coal fired power plants will it take to create the hydrogen for this

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You missed the /s tag. (It’s in white text.) Someone actually did propose this on Free Republic. Of course, water is the ash that results from buring hydrogen.