Al Gore and the Profit of Doom - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

As Planet Gore has previously reported, Al Gore is no longer simply an advocate of green technology — he's in a position to financially benefit from any U.S. move toward alternative energy and enforced carbon scarcity. If Al Gore is going to act as climate-policy advisor to President Obama, shouldn't his investments be held in the same kind of blind trust as any other cabinet official?

Is Al Gore Ever Right About Anything? » The Foundry

...the U.S. government’s National Intelligence Council issued a report yesterday concluding:

[A]ll current technologies are inadequate for replacing the traditional energy architecture on the scale needed, and new energy technologies probably will not be commercially viable and widespread by 2025. The pace of technological innovation will be key. Even with a favorable policy and funding environment for biofuels, clean coal, or hydrogen, the transition to new fuels will be slow. Major technologies historically have had an “adoption lag.” In the energy sector, a recent study found that it takes an average of 25 years for a new production technology to become widely adopted.