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- You are slipping, you forgot to call the folks who don?t believe in man caused global warming a ?Holocaust denier ? , get the propaganda right or we?ll sic Al Gore on ya.
Maybe you should check to see how much co2 a elephant emits, perhaps the poachers are fighting against global warming. - Reply to this comment
- It's all so easy.
My home uses 32kw of electricity. Solar panels cost about 1K$ per Kw, so for 32k$ about the cost of a new car, I could generate all the electricity I need. Now multiply that by about 80M homes in the US and you have 2.5T$ to cover every residential roof in America with solar panels.
For those who say that the sun doesn't shine all the time and not at night, I say that 3/4 of all our energy is used during the day when we are at work. The remaining 1/3 could easily be produced by domestic gas.
We need a Manhattan plan to move to solar energy and electric cars as soon as possible. It's the cleanest form of energy with the fewest problems. The Manhattan plan went from theory to an operational bomb in less than 2 years. i am sure we could move to solar power in just four years, certianly in 10 years. The problem is not technology, the problem is the vested interests in coal, oil and gas powered cars. - Reply to this comment
- Why is it you fail to mention how high our electric bills will increase with "cap & trade" or tax on those emissions? You mention that Obama is trying to tax those emissions but "meeting resistant by Congress". I think I could finally say thank you Congress. I don't understand why this network can't report the entire truth to the American people. Oh I forgot your not a real "news" network. These are your opinions or should I say the President's opinions.
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- There are solutions. This company is working on the solutions.
HTC Purenergy (HTC) is an energy technology company headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. HTC was incorporated in 1996 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture Exchange) under the symbol "HTC".
HTC's business is the development, aggregation and commercialization of proprietary technologies, relating to carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage, and hydrogen (H2) production utilizing CO2. These technologies have been acquired, licensed, developed internally and developed in partnership with the University of Regina and the International Test Centre for CO2 Capture (ITC), a leading centre of research for CO2 capture and storage.
The establishment of a specialized commercial entity focusing on carbon clear technologies was driven by rapidly expanding international efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change, through:
CO2 capture and sequestration (e.g. permanent underground storage);
Rising conventional energy (oil & gas) prices, which make CO2 a valuable commodity as an agent for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery (e.g. Enhanced Oil Recovery);
The need to provide the market solutions derived from the aggregation of market leading, fully validated technologies that could be commercially sourced from a single point of contact. That contact being an organization that could engage in commercial service and technology licensing agreements with commercial accountabilities and sustainability. - Reply to this comment
- In my view, every discussion of global warming should include at least a blurb on conservation. Americans do not need to waste as much energy as we do. Taxation could force conservation. For example, households which use more energy than the average for a house of the same size could incur a 15% or 20% surtax. It needs to be high enough to provide an incentive to turn out the lights or at least replace them with compact fluorescent bulbs.
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- Scott Pelley - Shame on you for your overt bias on this subject. I'm sure your editing ommitted all the polution improvments included in these two new Duke Energy plants (don't tell me you objectively didn't think that was relavent) and all your questions were biased to emphasize the added cost on the carborn side while never mentioning the cost of getting to the other technologies in similar timeframes. SHAME!!
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- The story about coal and greenhouse gases was factually innaccurate. Carbon dioxide was called the "leading greenehouse gas". The leading greenhouse gas is water vapor. Carbon dioxide has increased six fold in the last 400 years but the slope of increased global temperature change has not accelerated with this increased carbon dioxide.
If you report an article based on science please get your facts right. You have no credibility after your opening premise is incorrect. - Reply to this comment
- This guy is full of it. He will never change, it is business of old, why change if he's making money now...
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- Wake up. Global warming is a problem, but how about looking to the third world like China, India, etc. as we are no longer the largest producer of CO2. How about spending time blaming someone else besides the USA.
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- Following Obama's beliefs, look at the hateful liberal comments below determined to destroy the coal industry with a total disregard to the lives of miners and their communites in six coal producing states. What ever happened to the "compassionate" Democrat? Answer: He turned into a socialist.
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