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- The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
- Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...
- Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
- Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future
- Forget renewable energy, apparently the battle for supremacy in your energy future is between Big Coal and Natural Gas. Be aware, the math indicates coal has more Senate votes that natural gas. The energy bill that passed the House earlier this year does not taste good to the...
- Tags: Coal, U.S. Senate, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Photos: From coal mine to wind farm
- CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the Glenrock Wind Farm, the first such project to be built on the site of a former coal mine, on Road Trip 2009. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Coal, Wind Farm, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-07-23
- Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition
- Here's Darryl Hannah's explanation of why she cares about West Virginia coal mining, even though she doesn't live there. I blogged about the protest and arrests there in June. Of course, the coal industry itself claims all of the cancer and pollution complaints are not to be taken...
- Tags: West Virginia, Coal, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Coal: more on the fall-out
- There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your children's lifetime. Coal burning is destroying our atmosphere, our climate and turning an already...
- Tags: China, Coal, Construction, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Is there a green fossil fuel?
- The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...
- Tags: Coal, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Interest, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power
- Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...
- Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- How that mercury gets into your salmon
- A study of mercury pollution finally shows how mercery from natural and human-controlled sources gets through the rain cycle and into the ocean and its inhabitants. The research shows mercury levels in the Pacific rose 30% in the fifteen years prior to 2006. Also, much of the mercury...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, Mercury, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- '60 Minutes': Powered by coal
- Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming.
- Tags: Coal, CBS
- Videos 2009-04-27
- Clean coal battle moves onto the sidewalk
- Clean coal battle moves onto the sidewalkThat is the problem with environmentalists ...... they don't know when to take yes for an answer. Here is a company trying to do something about the environment. So what do the environmentalists do? They protest!They are protesting because they think...
- Tags: Clean Coal, Oboma
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissions
- EPA formally declares a pox on excess greenhouse gas emissionsGovernment OUT of controlTea Parties are happening everywhere, I am surethe new dictator will be mandating all kinds ofnew communist laws.It will take a total crash of the country for people to realize this is not the 'change' or the CHAINS...
- Tags: Tea Party, Oboma, global warming, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2009-04-18
- Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratorium
- Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumnonsensesequestration of CO2 is just total nonsense. It is technically impossible and outrageous.RE: Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumWaxman would happily feed his children to polar bears if the Sierra club said it was the right...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, coal, heartland, coal plant
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Mattoon may be back on the map
- Actually the town in eastern Illinois was never really off the map. But it did take a big hit at the end of 2007, that's when the President from Texas killed the federal support for FutureGen, the next generation coal-burning power plant to be built in Mattoon. Some...
- Tags: Coal, Plant, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the future
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the futureDon't think soPeak oil? give me a break. Are you talking about liquid oil? Then maybe. But how about tar sands, or oil shale? Are you saying we can't or won't get oil from those enormous...
- Tags: coal, Peak Oil
- Discussion threads 2009-03-07
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the future
- Some scientists are now calling for a serious attempt to measure the known coal and oil reserves. There is evidence that we've already passed peak oil, nearly one half of all oil explorationcompanies apparently agree with that conclusion. Meanwhile, coal mining is also facing a cliff and falling...
- Tags: Coal, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-07
- Always On and evergreen
- Always On has just announced their picks for the top fifty, privately-held, green tech companies based in the eastern U.S. Their overall winner: GreatPoint Energy. Always on concluded about the firm: "GreatPoint is commercializing a technology that converts raw coal into natural gas. This technology can yield...
- Tags: Coal, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities
- It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the land, POTUS and VPOTUS, oil was happy but gasoline buyers were not. ...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Petroleum, Pity, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Confronting Congressional hypocrisy
- We all know that members of Congress live sheltered lives. Secure dining areas. Federally-paid staff with plenty of job benefits. Great health insurance and access to perks and junkets on "official" business. Now some anti-coal groups are going to bring home the hypocrisy of both political...
- Tags: Coal, U.S. Congress, Hypocrisy, Cable, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- The coal war heats up
- The coal war heats upA problemA problem with the green initiatives is that they do not account for the environmental damage companies outside the US do while producing their products. It's easy to pick on the local guys because their processes are visible. This in turn creates an unlevel playing...
- Tags: coal, gasoline, USSR Russia
- Discussion threads 2009-02-15
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