Yesterday, Al Gore suggested to Congress that, as AP puts it “a revolution in small-scale electricity producers for replacing coal, likening the development to what the Internet has done for the exchange of information”.
Russell Roberts of Cafe Hayek perceptively notes the similarities between the Gore’s idea, and Mao’s 1958 attempt to double steel production in China via tiny backyard steel furnaces. Mao’s plan was of course one of his more legendary disasters; Roberts expects similar results if the Goracle’s is taken seriously. “Giving up the economies of scale we currently use for energy production is going to be very expensive”.
Yes, but think of the benefits!
(Via James Taranto.)
Update: More “Globalistical Warmening Updates” down on Maggie’s Farm.
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