Al Gore: The Clean Energy Revolution Is ‘A Dramatic New Reality’
Al Gore: The Clean Energy Revolution Is A Dramatic New Reality
It will be bigger than the industrial and information revolutions combined.
Al Gore believes we are in a turning point in the fight against climate change. The latest version of his Inconvenient Truth slideshow, which helped win him a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy award, is chock-full of charts, factoids, and quotes on the unprecedented revolution in clean energy technologies.
As part of his exclusive interview with me earlier this month, Gore spoke about the stunning advances in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and batteries: It is now clear that the sustainability revolution is more significant in the global economy than the industrial revolution and information revolution combined, Gore said with more optimism than Ive ever heard.
The clean energy revolution has the breadth of impact of the industrial revolution, but it has been occurring at the speed of the information revolution. The breadth and speed together yield an unprecedented transformation, as is clear from this recent Goldman Sachs chart:
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The rapid adoption of LEDs in lighting marks one of the fastest technology shifts in human history, the company has noted. LEDs are part of a larger energy efficiency revolution that has kept U.S. electricity demand flat for the past decade and probably will for at least the next decade, too.
The hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) revolution depicted...
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