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Coal — The Other Alt Fuel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kinda-like-pork-but-with-less-bacon dept.

This Wired piece is really a round-up about Coal: The Other Alt Fuel. One of the main stories is about an initiative to convert low-grade coal to other uses — like diesel fuel and so forth, but of course that nasty issue of carbon production comes up again.

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  1. Re:The issue is not the pollution [OT] by everphilski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    love the quote in your sig. Sneakers was a great movie.

  2. Groan by Frantactical+Fruke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm already trying to cut down on my Slashdot consumption, since I write for a living and all the bad prose here is killing my ear for English. Meeza kustermerz no gonna peh me iffa meeza deteriorizah furtha. My grounding in science, OTOH, is firmly based on school text books I glanced at in the 70s and lots of science fiction. It really should not be possible to get past my glazed eyes with a scientific howler, right?

    Carbon production!!! Out of coal? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

    Hint: Elsewhere in the publishing world, the word 'editor' does not mean story chooser. A really good editor fixes typos, grammar, story structure/rhythm and verifies facts.

    Hm...Okay, they are extinct these days. I have now found the word combination "equally as" in a Dan Simmons novel (Olympos) and in a musicology text published by an American university press. Forget I said anything.