During his speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Al Gore urged president-elect of the United States Barack Obama to take more measures in order to protect the environment from global warming, deeming the current actions aimed at solving this issues as not being drastic enough.

Moreover, Gore stated he believed that Obama should put forward a national plan entailing to get rid of non-renewable energy over the following ten years, thus rendering Americans to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable and non-carbon sources.

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore compared such a plan to the one John F. Kennedy set out to turn to reality the time he was at the helm of the nation, when he wanted America to land a man on the moon during the 1960s. Furthermore, he added that Barack Obama had the support of a generation of young people who could actually accomplish the mission of dispensing with non-renewable energy, whom had been inspired by his campaign and were looking for a goal to achieve in their life.

The environmental activist brought forth an idea of building a grid comprising high-voltage low-loss underground lines that would provide the nation with electricity from geothermal spots with high potential, as well as from solar power where south western deserts were concerned and wind power in the mountainous areas from Texas to the Dakotas.

Even though the grid would cost the United States $400 billion over ten years to build, Gore said the construction would pay for itself in approximately three-and-a-half years with the money that was to be saved on solving outage issues that arise with the present  U.S. electricity system.