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Coal = Devastation 2° (2 replies)

It's 10am, do you know where your electricity has been? Does your provider buy electricity from power plants using coal sourced from mountain top removal, MTR, operations. Coal is bad enough on it's own merits as a climate destroying fossil fuel but the "ecocide" of mountaintop removal is completely out ...

Started by C Robb W. last month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Industry, Politics, Pollution, Protest

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What do you think of McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for VP? 14° (14 replies)

According to Grist (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/29/83614/5859) Palin: - Opposed a statewide ballot initiative to prohibit or restrict new mining operations that could affect salmon in the state's streams and rivers - Has pushed to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope - Got the state legislature to pass a bill to ...

Started by Leslie B. in August, about Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Politics

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Can We Solve Our Energy Problems with Existing Technologies Today Without the Need for Breakthrough Innovations? 10° (10 replies)

This is the topic of an Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis at the Economist -http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=hall&debate_id=11&sa_campaign=debateseries/debate11/spr/blog/tb13 The argument for solving our energy needs with today's technology is made by Joseph J. Romm, Senior Fellow at the Centre for American Progress and the argument for the need for technology ...

Started by Leslie B. in August, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Energy Saving, Industry, Politics

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Mitigate, adapt, or both? 0° (no replies)

One of the lecturers, Peter Harper, at my last module for my MSc stressed the importance of developing carbon capture and storage as a last ditch effort to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Others discussed the looming need for planetary engineering proposals and a willingness to consider implementation of such schemes. ...

Started by C Robb W. in August, about Biofuels, Carbon Sequestration, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environmental Disasters

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Cost of War - Reliance on Fossil Fuels? 14° (4 replies)

I have recently been using youtube to get my fix of decent BBC Comedy and stubbled upon Rob Newman's (AKA one half of Newman and Baddiel) excellent one man show - The History of Oil. He comes to a very interesting conclusion that the war in Iraq had little to ...

Started by Roger K. in July, about Coal & Oil

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Fuel Protests 14° (14 replies)

What do you think should/will be the outcome of the fuel protests breaking out globally? see: http://www.celsias.com/2008/06/12/fuel-protests-spread-like-wildfire/

Started by Alexandra Smith in June, about Coal & Oil, Finance

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McCain's Nuclear Plans and Bush's Plans to Drill Offshore 9° (9 replies)

I'm curious how other people feel about Bush's recent mention of lifting bans on offshore drilling? McCain's goal of building 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030? (see links below) With high fuel costs, the time seems right to talk about renewables. What will finally cause the political right to begin ...

Started by Alexandra Smith in June, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Nuclear

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Can you/will you give up driving if oil prices continue to rise? 4° (4 replies)

At what point will driving become too expensive for you? $5 a gallon? $10 a gallon? $50 a gallon?

Started by Leanne V. in July, about Coal & Oil

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Is peak oil real? 13° (13 replies)

We heard back in the Seventies that oil would run out by the end of the century. But with improving exploration and drilling technology, existing oil fields were extended, and new fields were found. So, why won't this happen again?

Started by Nick Lewis in June, about Coal & Oil

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Do we have a moral right to stop the mining of oil sands? 3° (3 replies)

Take a look at this fascinating article about shale oil which is being mined in Australia at present. Australia, like the US, is full of drivers of large cars who are still looking for ways of keeping their cars on the road. What I'm interested in is the conflict between ...

Started by Sophie J. in June, about Coal & Oil

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