Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Who’s Inconvenient Truth?

My buddy Jun shared a link via email earlier today:

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

What’s really annoying about these sensationalized news bites is that they’re just that – sensationalized.  It talks about energy totals, but there’s no mention about the more important factor – energy source. If even 10kWh is from solar power, than I’m willing to bet that’s better than all of ours combined!  Then there’s the density factor – Gore owns a huge estate, so how much energy is consumed per foot (or meter, for you metric types :)?  Possibly less than the avg. American?

It’s really too bad because An Inconvenient Truth’s thesis isn’t simply about reducing energy consumption.  The purpose is to bring attention to CO2’s damaging effects.  If we were all consuming twice as much energy but was all solar sourced, then we probably wouldn’t be in a climate crisis (I’m not saying we wouldn’t be having a different problem, either :).

No, I have no affiliation to Gore and his policies.  The Tennessee Center’s inconvenient truth is that they lost a potential reader.