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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

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The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

humm, I don't think we have all the facts.humm, okay.I'm gonna say that there's probably a lot of details involved, and the EPA probably didn't wake up one day, grow a green heart, and take action just because they turned green one day.And don't look now, but the Democrats aren't...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy battle, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 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

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

What should we do with Tennessee and West Virginia when we're done?

I've blogged on the recent coal ash flood around a TVA power plant. No body died and a few homes got wrecked from waste after decades of cheap coal-fired electricity. So what's the big deal? Besides it was in Tennessee which is not your big media center...

Tags: Cement, Ash, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Say Something Nice About Bank of America

OK, I will. This has nothing to do with the bruhaha over the sit-in by former workers at at shuttered factory in Chicago. Or the retaliation as the Illinois governor says the state will cease doing business with Bank of America. While the economic stories get nastier,...

Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Banking, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Services, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

'08 big year for coal tech

First, this year work begins on construction of the FutureGen coal-burning plant in Mattoon, Illinois. Funded largely by federal grants and run by a coalition of mining and electricity companies, FutureGen is to be almost emission free. Coal creating electricity without dumping CO2 into thr atmosphere. Sounds like...

Tags: Coal, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-01-03

The Kansas Coal War and a Kennedy descries coalacaust

The Coal War continues in Kansas. The state legislature is back in session and the coal bruhaha has pushed other issues off the agenda. And it has blown new life into the debate over wind energy in Kansas. We all remember "The Wizard of Oz." There's...

Tags: Kansas, Coal, Coal War, State Legislature, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Solar flare may zing satellites, wireless networks

Solar flare may zing satellites, wireless networksWE'RE ALL GOING TO DIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!Watch the approaching ionizing Apocalypse on http://www.spaceweather.com/Remember: choosy housewives choose http://www.spaceweather.com/Will that light sweater be enough, our is it time to trot out that three ton lead and steel power suit gathering dust in the back of the closet? Check...

Tags: Y2K, Wi-Fi, network, solar flare, flare, WE'RE, satellite, wireless network, wireless

Discussion threads 2003-10-24