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- Oh, what a darling story. The word choice is so cute. Was the Author (?) in the seventh or eighth grade when this assignment in the Home Economics class was made. Next week we will tell you how to make a cozy for you tea pot that looks like a little puppy.
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- There is a small company called Synergena that holds patented technology able to effectively deal with the hydrocarbons and clean up the excess water "ponds" Check them out!
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- I was very interested in the piece on fracking this morning. Our home town is in Western Wisconsin where recently the landscape and way of life has been changed by the sand mines that have cropped up all over supplying the sand used in fracking. We have always been curious as to where it goes and what it is used for. Trucks and trains full of sand are an everyday reality as is the everchanging landscape. Green Western Wisconsin hillsides have been turned into moonscapes. Many farm ownes have become rich while others hate what is happening. In the area are the same controversies as to whether or not the mines are a blessng or curse to the area. I would love to see a follow up piece on the effects of sand mining for fracking sand has on our commumities in Wisconsin
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- There is no such thing as totally clean energy. Somehow or other the environment is affected somewhere along the process of producing "clean" energy. But if we are talking about emission-free "clean" energy that is continuous and capable of supplanting fossil fuels, then the singular solution, in one word, is nuclear.
Not the same uranium-based, water-cooled nuclear technology that we grew up and live with, but a newer, safer, does-not-need-to-sit-by-a-river power plant. You mean a nuclear reactor that can be viable in the middle of a desert? How can that be? Is it magic? What is this "new" reactor design? It is called a thorium reactor, or more accurately, a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR).
Here are two links:
1) http://youtu.be/bbyr7jZOllI?t=30m16s
2) http://youtu.be/RMs8P97z7fk
"The world desperately needs sustainable, low-carbon energy to address climate change while lifting people out of poverty. Thorium-based reactors, such as those designed by the late Alvin Weinberg, could radically change perceptions of nuclear power leading to widespread deployment." — Baroness Worthington - Reply to this comment
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