Engineer: "Simply put, Gore has no clue - whatsoever - what he is talking about. None."

Blue Crab Boulevard » Canute Get There From Here

The fact is, we do have an interconnected grid - or nothing would be working the way it does. The other fact is that the laws of physics dictate how line losses work. It is not possible to transmit power from "where the sun shines and the wind blows" to anywhere all that distant from those places. This has to do with the pure physical constraints of how electricity is produced and transmitted. All those overhead transmission lines have real - and absolute - physical constraints on them. Al Gore cannot wave his magic wand and remove those constraints.

When Gore can pull off what King Canute could not and repeal the laws of physics that govern how things work in the real world, I'll listen to him.