be joining the various plants across the country and around the world. if you do this, it s basically unlimited energy. you re starting with hydrogen and ending up with helium. not even exotic materials. sometimes you re the careful science skeptic, and one piece at a time. here you sound very much convinced they have been taken this step. what is the time line for this to the car pool lane piece? if you have all this will reeventually be harnessing the breakthroughs and not worrying about individual green steps? when you have a breakthrough like that, it transforms the dialogue of what the future of energy would be, as you d expect. if it cannot be made portable, that s a problem. right now it s happening at the facility at the lawrence livermore national labs. each laser that hit this pellet that he imploded creating pressure significant to reach
there says she doesn t believe it. he s a science skeptic. he was calling people studying this climate alarme eses eses e it off. reporter: he spent 14 years as a top aid to the top climate change denier. it s a snowball. reporter: oklahoma senator james inhall. i offered evidence catastrophic global warmings is a hoax. reporter: in office, a staunch opponent of environmental regulations and when in charge, he held hearings challenging climate warming science. at his side, whispering in his ear helping to direct questioning lining up witness was wheeler. capitol hill sources with intimate knowledge tell cnn wheeler was the top man in charge and a driving force behind his bosses climate change
reporter: elizabeth gore, senior vice president at the environmental defense fund and a senate staffer while wheeler was there says she doesn t believe it. he s a science skeptic. he was calling people who were studying this climate alarmists, shrugging off the risks of carb pollution, calling climate change a hoax. reporter: wheeler before lobbying for big coal spent 14 years as a top aide to the top climate change denier on capitol hill. it s a snowball. reporter: oklahoma senator james inhofe. the past hour and a half or so, i ve offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. reporter: inhofe is a staunch opponent of environmental regulations. and when in charge of the senate s environment and public works committee, he held hearings challenging climate warming science. at his side, whispering in his ear, helping to direct questioning, lining up witnesses, was wheeler. capitol hill sources with intimate knowledge of his
production, and he is doing it like a man who knows how to play the washington game. in strictly controlled environments like this forum at the washington post, wheeler will answer questions like a pro, like this response on the newly released government report on the effects of climate change. i haven t read the entire report yet, but i ve gone through it. reporter: and carefully choosing his words about the human impact on climate. i believe that man does have an impact on the climate, that co2 has an impact on the climate, and we do take that seriously. reporter: elizabeth gore, senior vice president at the environmental defense fund and a senate staffer while wheeler was there says she doesn t believe it. he s a science skeptic. he was calling people who were studying this climate alarmists, shrugging off the risks of carb pollution, calling climate change a hoax. reporter: wheeler before lobbying for big coal spent 14 years as a top aide to the top