...besides give a slick presentation.

If he took the job people might start questioning his own personally hefty carbon footprint again; the inconsistencies in his slide show would be up for ridicule again, etc. etc.

If he was truly an ambassador for addressing the issues of climate change he would still be active in effecting the needed reforms and innovations. But that might be too much like work. Instead we haven't heard from him in any substantive way since he made the film, unless you call a guest appearance on the Fey-Baldwin show substantive.

Maybe he's gotten even fatter and is too vain to appear in public? Or maybe he's too busy attending those secret meetings in submarines below the Arctic Ocean...

He was integral in creating huge momentum for the climate change movement, one that needs to be implemented in leaps and bounds at our nearest "convenience". I'm disappointed that Mr. Gore hasn't taken a more active role in leading the country toward the clean-energy and climate-stabilizing practices and technologies that he argues are so vital for the survival of the planet.

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...either.

Did everyone's electricity just go out? I checked all the Sarah Palin articles to see where everyone was posting and there were a fair amount of people over there.

That would be like, so inconvenient if the electricity failed but I don't think we have to worry too much. They say there's plenty of coal in them thar hills, you just gotta blast their tops off and slide the dirt into the rivers to get to it. Only poor people live there and they don't really mind I don't think.

10:17 and nobody's home.

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COAL companies have DUPED most Americans into thinking that Nuclear power
is dangerous. Nuclear is the safest. Nuclear has killed ZERO Americans.
Meanwhile, COAL kills 24000 Americans every year. Coal kills more like a
Million Chinese every year. It isn't just mercury. It is all heavy metal poisons
plus organic carcinogens that coal contains.

Coal is mostly carbon, but the complete list of impurities in coal includes every
element in the periodic table. The major impurities are, depending on where
you found it: URANIUM, ARSENIC, LEAD, MERCURY, Antimony, Cobalt,
Nickel, Copper, Selenium, Barium, Fluorine, Silver, Beryllium, Iron, Sulfur,
Boron, Titanium, Cadmium, Magnesium, Calcium, Manganese, Vanadium,
Chlorine, Aluminum, Chromium, Molybdenum and Zinc. Coal smoke and
cinders are commercially viable ORE for the above elements. Chinese industrial
grade coal contains much more arsenic than American coal. Chinese industrial
grade coal is sometimes stolen by peasants for cooking. The result is that the
whole family dies of arsenic poisoning. Coal varies a lot. You have to analyze
it not only mine by mine but even lump by lump. Coal is a rock. It comes out
of the ground. What would you expect of a rock?
Reference:
OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE:
THE PATH OF SELECTIVE IGNORANCE
by Alex Gabbard
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Selections from the 19th Annual Conference
SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY
March 14,15,16, 1996
Nashville, Tennessee

Published by the
SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY
1996
Edited by Jack D. Arters, Ed.D.
Conference Director
The truth is, all natural rocks contain most natural elements. Coal is a rock.
The average concentration of uranium in coal is 1 or 2 parts per million. Illinois
coal contains up to 103 parts per million uranium. A 1000 million watt coal
fired power plant burns 4 million tons of coal each year. If you multiply 4
million tons by 1 part per million, you get 4 tons of uranium. Most of that is
U238. About .7% is U235. 4 tons = 8000 pounds. 8000 pounds times .7% =
56 pounds of U235. An average 1000 million watt coal fired power plant puts
out 56 to 112 pounds of U235 every year. There are only 2 places the uranium
can go: Up the stack or into the cinders.
Since a reactor full fuel load is around 11 tons of 2% U235 and 98% U238, and
one load lasts about 10 years, and what one coal fired power plant puts into the
air and cinders fully fuels a nuclear power plant.
Compare 4 Million tons per year with 1.1 tons per year. 1.1 divided by 4 Million
= 2.75 E -7 = .000000275 =.0000275%. Remember that only 2% of that is
U235. The nuclear power plant needs ~44 pounds of U235 per year. The coal
fired power plant burns coal by the trainload. The nuclear power plant consumes
U235 in such small quantities yearly that you could carry that much weight in a
briefcase. The full fuel load and the years between fueling varies from reactor to
reactor, but one truck can carry the weight of a full nuclear fuel load.
See also: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review

Bruce Nilles: Why don't you provide us with the email addresses of those state
Attorneys General who are taking action so that we can inform them of the other
poisons in coal?

Sincerely,
The Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy
www.ecolo.org

PS: How did the previous copy of this post get erased from Alternet without a trace?

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Coal is mostly carbon, but the complete list of impurities in coal includes every
element in the periodic table. The major impurities are, depending on where
you found it: URANIUM, ARSENIC, LEAD, MERCURY, Antimony, Cobalt,
Nickel, Copper, Selenium, Barium, Fluorine, Silver, Beryllium, Iron, Sulfur,
Boron, Titanium, Cadmium, Magnesium, Calcium, Manganese, Vanadium,
Chlorine, Aluminum, Chromium, Molybdenum and Zinc. Coal smoke and
cinders are commercially viable ORE for the above elements. Chinese industrial
grade coal contains much more arsenic than American coal. Chinese industrial
grade coal is sometimes stolen by peasants for cooking. The result is that the
whole family dies of arsenic poisoning. Coal varies a lot. You have to analyze
it not only mine by mine but even lump by lump. Coal is a rock. It comes out
of the ground. What would you expect of a rock?
Reference:
OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE:
THE PATH OF SELECTIVE IGNORANCE
by Alex Gabbard
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Selections from the 19th Annual Conference
SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY
March 14,15,16, 1996
Nashville, Tennessee

Published by the
SOUTHERN FUTURE SOCIETY
1996
Edited by Jack D. Arters, Ed.D.
Conference Director
The truth is, all natural rocks contain most natural elements. Coal is a rock.
The average concentration of uranium in coal is 1 or 2 parts per million. Illinois
coal contains up to 103 parts per million uranium. A 1000 million watt coal
fired power plant burns 4 million tons of coal each year. If you multiply 4
million tons by 1 part per million, you get 4 tons of uranium. Most of that is
U238. About .7% is U235. 4 tons = 8000 pounds. 8000 pounds times .7% =
56 pounds of U235. An average 1000 million watt coal fired power plant puts
out 56 to 112 pounds of U235 every year. There are only 2 places the uranium
can go: Up the stack or into the cinders.
Since a reactor full fuel load is around 11 tons of 2% U235 and 98% U238, and
one load lasts about 10 years, and what one coal fired power plant puts into the
air and cinders fully fuels a nuclear power plant.
Compare 4 Million tons per year with 1.1 tons per year. 1.1 divided by 4 Million
= 2.75 E -7 = .000000275 =.0000275%. Remember that only 2% of that is
U235. The nuclear power plant needs ~44 pounds of U235 per year. The coal
fired power plant burns coal by the trainload. The nuclear power plant consumes
U235 in such small quantities yearly that you could carry that much weight in a
briefcase. The full fuel load and the years between fueling varies from reactor to
reactor, but one truck can carry the weight of a full nuclear fuel load.
See also: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review

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If not, how did the original copy of my post above get erased
without a trace? The Sierra Club is obviously fighting with one
hand tied behind its back. Why is that? Thought Criminal,
please do your "follow the money trail" thing.

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I had wondered if he would be picked and if he would accept. Al Gore has a point, given the economic climate and it's relation to environmental climate becoming more dependent on each other, he has more power where he is without the restrictions Washington would bring.
I thought I heard Robert Kennedy Jr. was being thought about. For my money this is just as good a pick, and brings an even younger generation. It also would be my pick.

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