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\nReferring to Obama’s recent victory in the presidential race, the group’s adverts on television, in newspapers and online, ask the question, "Now what?"<\/p>\n

"Our nation just made history," one video says. "We have an historic opportunity to boost our economy and repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years. It will create new American jobs, end our addiction to dirty coal and foreign oil and solve the climate crisis."<\/p>\n

The plan calls for immediate investment in energy efficiency, renewable electricity generation — including public investment in wind, solar and geothermal technology — and the creation of a unified national "smart grid", which would move power quickly to where it needs to be and support electric cars.<\/p>\n

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The incoming Barack Obama administration should focus on energy efficiency, renewable resources and creating a unified power grid, Reuters reported the Alliance for Climate Protection — the group founded by former vice-president Al Gore — as saying, in a new campaign to help the United States meet Gore’s previously announced challenge for the country to produce 100% clean electricity in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nObama "should create US power grid" | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The incoming Barack Obama administration should focus on energy efficiency, 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