A very good interview here in Grist with Barack's energy advisor.  Finally the source of confusion is loccated, excellent work by Dave Roberts of Grist, yet again!

This guy talks like a computer.  Reeling off complex language in theory laden terminology.  Photographic memory is wonderful, but it doesn't help one's judgememt or understanding.

Joesph Romm, for instance, does understand the whole scenario of energy, transportation, and ag policy  much better, but no one is as effective at rhetoric about the whole thing as this Jason.  

It's kind of spooky actually.  But he really is misinfomed and is misinforming others when it comes to specifics, outlined in these two excerpts.

"...and they are: renewables -- wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro, and the rest; the opportunity to capture and sequester the carbon from hydrocarbons; the possibility of a new and advanced approach to nuclear power that would not have the attendant waste and safety and proliferation issues; the possibility of a bio-based energy effort, not just cellulosic ethanol but the algaes and the rest; and then somewhat more diverse but myriad breakthroughs in energy-efficiency technology -- advances in semiconducting, small breakthroughs in motors and lighting and heating and the rest."

"...the challenges of getting 30 or 40 or 50 percent of our electric power from renewable resources are also immense. They will require tens and hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in energy distribution. They will require real breakthroughs in battery technology to deal with the intermittency issue. There are going to be human-resource and natural-resource issues we come up against. There is an imagination that distributed energy is somehow easy and friendly, but we've seen, as we try to site what many of us thought would be embraced as small, benign windmills and solar facilities, rather strident opposition from many local communities."

Is it worth trying to correct these mistaken notions?  These guys will do what they are going to do.  They will not be swayed by the likes of us rank and file bloggers.

Our only hope is that some of the more responsible, influential bloggers, like Joe and Sean, who do listen to our input, can get around filters like Jason and others, to get the real picture to Barack.

This would take demonstration of actual technology applied in systems that really work.  Seeing is believing.  Absent real world examples, super-articulate advisors like this will determine the policies.  Period.

And with the myopic view Jason exhibits, this is a bad sign for we the people and mother earth.  How can a wakeup call get through?