Who said I was talking about the actual generation of the energy? The CO2 emssions im talking about are these:

 Blast mining

 Transportation of coal from mine to processing, to the powerplant

The process of making the coal clean will send out poisonous waste into the ecosystem.

The loss of carbon sinks, like the forests of Appalachia, and other parts of the world should this become a worldwide phenomenon.

 Etc. Did you even watch the initial video? If not, what basis do you have to criticize me?

What is my point?

Why invest in dirty energy thinking it will ever be clean when we DO have alternatives. Solar (I know its not as efficient as we need it to be, but instead of spending hundreds of billions a year in Iraq...u get the drift) in the desert basins of the world like the Mojave or Sahara, wind, nuclear (which is problematic but less dirty, tidal power, hydrogen, etc. These technologies are either established and can  be exploited, or need further investment. Thus, this is my point, INVEST in new technologies in both implementation and R&D ,a new Manhattan project.

Why won't this happen?

Lobby groups in Washington representing the big energy producers, oil, coal, natural gas, will NOT allow this to occur. If they did, where would they get their income from in the future? Marx did say, capitalism is a anti-progressive system due to this very contradiction.

This is my point.
 

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by Nick86 on 05/11/2008 11:33:38 AM EST

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