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Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

Green Car Congress

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Department of Interior Seeks to Vacate Stream Buffer Zone Rule for Mountaintop Coal Mining

Green Car Congress

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has directed the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a pleading with the US District Court in Washington DC requesting that the mountaintop coal mining “stream buffer zone rule” issued by the Bush Administration be vacated due to being legally defective. Secretary Salazar.

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A Few Words on Eco Terrorists, Cowards and Courage

Creative Greenius

Last night at the Hermosa Beach City Council meeting I heard an ignorant little man reference my favorite Edward Abbey book, “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” which I read the year it came out – in 1975 as a senior in high school. There are no bigger cowards then the people who work for the oil, coal and gas industries.

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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

Green Car Congress

Deuterium atoms diffuse into the electrode material from the heavy water used in the electrolyte. discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. He is with Hokkaido University in Japan, and wrote the book Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

Indeed I am talking about Big Dick Cheney, who in addition to his many other immoral and criminal acts also shamelessly promoted the excessive use of oil, coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels by encouraging Americans to use all the energy they could afford to put on their credit cards. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL.

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Read Your Way Through Utah

Baua Electric

Which books can lead to a desert state of mind? And his book “ The Secret Knowledge of Water ” could not be more germane to our current megadrought. And his book “ The Secret Knowledge of Water ” could not be more germane to our current megadrought. Which books can feed a Mormon state of mind?

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