Here’s a film clip of Al Gore making a firm prediction that “next generation ethanol” not dependent on corn or food crops will move out of the lab in “three years.”

He discusses the energy balance question, fails to question the use of coal for process heat, and suggests that there is some sort of “distribution network” that’s going to be built.

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