Emphasis sharpens on coal in global warming crisis Washington Post: James Hansen -- perhaps the best-known scientific advocate for curbing greenhouse gas emissions -- sent a letter recently to the head of one of the nation's largest power companies calling on him to confront the role that his coal-fired plants play in global warming. Hansen proposed they meet. On Wednesday, James Rogers of Duke Energy accepted Hansen's invitation, though he made clear he does not foresee calling off plans to build more of the power plants that Hansen considers a main ... Link
Haase - The idea of building more coal to "cap it" and sell and trade "hot air" carbon credits is a dumb as the direction our nation took in the 70's when we had the technology, resources and capital to build solar farms, electric cars and 50 MPG trucks. We failed then due to "financial redirected interests", how does this sound any different. Seriously, have we learned nothing from history or markets in 30 years? At this point we would be selling clean energy to third world polluters and not buying it from them had we stuck with the program.