[Terrapreta] A reward system foreliminatingand/oroffsettingfossil carbon usage

[Mark Ludlow]

Gore should wear sack cloth and rub ashes on himself! That would solve GW!

 

Mark

 

From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Greg and April
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:36 PM
To: MFH; 'Sean K. Barry'; 'Ron Larson'
Cc: 'Terra Preta'
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] A reward system
foreliminatingand/oroffsettingfossil carbon usage

 

Max, 

 

You indeed, put it much better than I did - and with allot more clear
thinking too.    Trying to reconcile Gore's words to his actions always has
been a hard bone for me to swallow.

 

Greg H.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: MFH <mailto:mfh01 at bigpond.net.au>  

To: 'Sean K. Barry' <mailto:sean.barry at juno.com>  ; 'Ron
<mailto:rongretlarson at comcast.net>  Larson' ; 'Greg and April'
<mailto:gregandapril at earthlink.net>  

Cc: 'Terra Preta' <mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>  

Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 19:07

Subject: RE: [Terrapreta] A reward system
foreliminatingand/oroffsettingfossil carbon usage

 

Sean

 

Various reports indicate that:

 

a) Gore's family home is 10,000 sq.ft

b)Electricity use in 2006 was 191,000 KWh

c) He owns 2 additional homes

 

191,000 KWh is 523 KWh/day. Even for a 10,000 sq ft home I doubt if the roof
area would be large enough to be able to install the required PV panels to
generate this. Irrespective, even if all his power was produced from PV
panels, 523 KWh/day is verging on the obscene.

 

In addition what about his fossil fuel use in vehicles and aircraft. And
perhaps his water use, and his waste disposal. Maybe he has on-site
treatment plants for his sewage waste, and worm farms for his organic
household waste but I've never heard that.

 

I live comfortably and without any draconian restrictions on an average of 8
KW of electricity/day, and less than 80 litres of water. I really don't know
enough about Al Gore's lifestyle to label him a hypocrite, but I'd like to
see more evidence that he's acting according to what he's preaching.

 

Max H

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /attachments/20080414/7be3524e/attachment.html