Nice interview.

so ... here in Alabama, i'll never see this movie. the closest location is memphis (which might be doable if reviews are worth wasting the gas money). It isn't even playing in Atlanta. I hope it does well and gets picked up for a wider distribution.

Very great interview. Definitely pay attention to the nuclear power parts... I didn't realize Gore didn't think that nuclear power was a viable alternative energy source.

Also, the ethanol section is pretty darned interesting too. It shows how much the public knows, though... everyone is being fed that nuclear is the solution to our power woes when it may not even feasibly be able to fill that role...

I think the important part about the ethanol answer is that the said "cellulosic" ethanol, not corn ethanol, and in that he's absolutely right.

I've noticed there hasn't been a lot of info coming out about Butanol. Recent developments give the same yield as ethanol but without the energy density loss that ethanol suffers. Comments??

I feel that most solutions to the thinning ozone layer which
I think is accepted as a major contribution to global warming. Most solutions are passive in nature in that they concern themselves with not doing certain things for example not using fluorocarbons or not releasing freon and other ozone destructive gases.

What I propose is to generate ozone in areas of the world that would be conducive to their direct and immediate rise to the ozone layer.

These areas in general would be mountainous remote areas of the world with existing transmission lines whose power would be utilized to drive ozone generaters thereby creating a small but steady emission of ozone that would deliver itself to the ozone layer. This would be one active solution that I feel should be discussed and implemented.

This could be accomplished for free in some cases where "dumped" electricity could be used.

Bill Beck
Inventor