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Coal use called greatest threat to our climate
northjersey.com ^ | December 1, 2007 | JIM WRIGHT

Posted on 12/02/2007 1:24:30 PM PST by Coleus

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To: BipolarBob

They know they must destroy the U.S. (and Israel) in order to accomplish this. Unfortunately, our government (with the exception of maybe a couple of people) is handing them our freedom hook, line and sinker!


21 posted on 12/02/2007 1:40:40 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Liberalism IS a mental illness.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Perhaps but I'm tired of being cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I'm tired of paying exorbitant fuel prices while we allow our own crude to lay in the ground because some wackos say it might harm the mating habits of caribou when there's no evidence that's true or that we even need more caribou.

It's time the American people realized it is Democrats who are causing these ridiculous prices.

22 posted on 12/02/2007 1:43:27 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Coleus; OAKC0N; time4good; Mike32; genxer; PatriotEdition; Simul iustus et peccator; ...
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Please ping me to all note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

23 posted on 12/02/2007 1:43:29 PM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: SAJ

Credibility of whom? This is no challenge to credibility except as affirmation of lack by GWers.


24 posted on 12/02/2007 1:45:46 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

It’s the planners, most of whom are Ds or Enviros.


25 posted on 12/02/2007 1:47:16 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: RightWhale

No, it is bovine flatulence!


26 posted on 12/02/2007 1:47:38 PM PST by Doctor Don
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To: Coleus

What about the EVIL SUVs?


27 posted on 12/02/2007 1:48:04 PM PST by tioga (Dear Santa..........I can explain....)
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To: Coleus

Coal is about 1/5 the current price of oil in BTU terms, and the USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal. At current prices, there is no need to import any oil at all, once coal liquification is ramped up.

These enrivonmental extremists are a greater danger to our country than Osama bin Laden and all his men. Personally, I refuse to vote for anyone, at any level of government, who buys into Al Gore’s insanity. It must stop!


28 posted on 12/02/2007 1:48:33 PM PST by devere
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To: Coleus

If it were really a threat they would have used the N word.


29 posted on 12/02/2007 1:49:01 PM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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To: RightWhale

It’s time to start ridiculing them.


30 posted on 12/02/2007 1:49:35 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Coleus

Environmentalists are the Greatest risk to our Climate

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


31 posted on 12/02/2007 1:51:08 PM PST by bray (Let's Bring Christ Back to Christmas)
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To: Coleus

Start tomorrow on 100 new nuclear reactors. Problem solved, other than paying for it.


32 posted on 12/02/2007 1:51:19 PM PST by listenhillary (You get more of what you focus on)
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To: Coleus

“Coal use called greatest threat to our climate”

Coal use called greatest threat to our freedom.

Fixed!


33 posted on 12/02/2007 1:54:05 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

A reporter from Discovery channel came by last summer looking for Global Warming damage to the permafrost. I showed him where the aspen and paper birch were invading the black spruce forest as much as 100 yards in the past 30 years. He left with a look of despair on his face.


34 posted on 12/02/2007 1:55:48 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: L98Fiero

Sounds like Florio is not yet satisfied with the outcome of WWII.


35 posted on 12/02/2007 2:06:34 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: RightWhale

Paper birch or white birch. My impression was the paper, or brown, birch trees (of which I have several dozen) were not very tolerant of the dryer air at the higher latitudes.


36 posted on 12/02/2007 2:10:02 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Clintonfatigued
I thought it was gasoline.

That was last week.

Or was it last month....?

It's hard to keep up with these loonies.

At any rate, fine...ok.

When do we start construction on the nuclear power plants?

37 posted on 12/02/2007 2:20:23 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: Coleus
I am no fan of burning coal, as it is presently done simply because of the unique pollution it produces: fly ash that is mildly radioactive and sulfur dioxide that leads to acidic rain and leaching in soil types.

Having said that, I would rather have this pollution than not have my air conditioning in July and August. I look forward to a day when the vast ocean of hydrocarbons we are blessed to have in our coal reserves can be converted into useful forms of liquid fuels as well as electricity without having this pollution.

Since today 52% of our electricity is generated by burning coal, battery powered cars = coal fired cars.

38 posted on 12/02/2007 2:21:23 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: Coleus

Coal plants produce a lot of CO2 and NOx (nitrous oxides).

However, algae just loves to eat both of them. And some of the kinds of algae that do so are about 50% vegetable oil by weight. Vegetable oil that can readily be turned into biodiesel.

For maybe 6-8 months out of the year North of the Mason Dixon line, and 10-11 months of the year South of there, there is enough sunlight for algae to grow. And with CO2 and NOx bubbled through their tanks, they grow a LOT.

So instead of waste that is expensive to dispose of, we get not just electricity, but FUEL, from coal burning industries.

The icing on the cake is that biodiesel is the BEST of the alternatives to petroleum fuels. It has about 96% of the energy of petroleum diesel, it works very well in powerful automobile engines yet diesel engines are scalable enough to be used to power railroad engines and ships.

And biodiesel even smells better than petroleum diesel.

That means we get lots of cheap electricity from the coal plants, we get easy to process fuel out of the deal, and we can even recycle the water the algae grows in.


39 posted on 12/02/2007 2:24:03 PM PST by Popocatapetl
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To: Coleus
To compensate for the energy lost by erasing the 151 coal-fired plants currently on the drawing board nationwide, Mazria called for intensive research efforts on solar power

How many megawatts will your "intensive research" generate senor Doctor?

40 posted on 12/02/2007 2:26:31 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that that light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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