E2: Energy
by Tad Fettig
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Actor: Morgan FreemanDirector: Tad Fettig
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
Cinematographer: Robert Humphreys
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
Movie Reviews of E2: Energy
Movie Review: Interesting but incomplete
Summary: 4 Stars
The world needs to know more about the limits of carbon-based energy, and its indirect costs. Today, the rapidly rising direct cost of petroleum generally pushes the ongoing global warming (or climate change) debate off the table. The good news is that the price of oil is now so high that people are forced to consider conservation and alternatives through the traditional price mechanism rather than through Sting, Joseph Kennedy, Al Gore's hypocritical chiding. Those high prices are a clear signal that, regardless of your political or environmental bent, we just can't afford business as usual with oil.
The bad news is that the government is not likely to be of help here. Carbon taxes on clearly dysfunctional consumption are unpopular an regressive and subsidies to nascent industries such as wind, ethanol, and other hybrid energies are not likely to produce what we really need. Again, the market will work.
The stories are current; the production values are high but the right questions are not always asked nor are the broadest array of solutions and critics considered. Interviewing a journalist for the market-oriented magazine/newspaper, The Economist," does not do enough to provide balance or insight. CAFE standards are an inferior, meddling solution. Subsidies for ethanol have grossly distorted food prices and shifted the energy problem from calories of heat t calories of food to consume. The viewer is left more with dismay and pessimism than with hope for the future.
Less hand wringing and more examples of solutions would be appreciated, but that does not detract from the basic value of the series' message.
Summary of E2: Energy
Global in scope and comprising six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD "e2: Energy" features people places and innovations that suggest that a more environmentally benign future is possible and within reach. Equal parts visual style and storytelling acumen each episode stands alone while contributing to the larger dialogue the series is intended to promote.Includes all six series episodes:Harvesting the WindEnergy for a Developing WorldPaving the WayGrowing EnergyState of ResolveCoal & Nuclear: Problem or Solution?System Requirements:Running Time: 180 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/PBS Rating: TV-G UPC: 841887008785 Manufacturer No: DESI602Documentary DVD Video
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