coal

...but not in a bad way, more of a triumphant chuckle, really.

It's all because of this article that was posted on Treehugger.com: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/greenpeace_coal_conference_activ...

Here's a recent email I sent out to many of my closest friends. I thought I'd make my documentary film, Don't Look Back, Montana, available to anyone who wants to see it in the ProgressiveU community. My offer to send out a dvd to an interested party still stands. Please, tell me what you think of the 15 minute production and spread the word. This is a very important issue to me.

"Quite simply, the argument for investment in clean energy solutions is analogous to the argument for permanent hair removal...."

Hairy Sustainability
(As Published in the Diamondback, the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper).

So far 2008 has not been a good year for the coal industry. Just hours after President Bush touted clean coal in his State of the Union address, the Department of Energy decided to stop the FutureGen project (which was suppose to build the first zero-emissions coal plant). With more talks of carbon footprints, many investors found ways to stop their support of coal. Now the fight for coal has moved from Wall Street to Kansas.

Pros:
• Abundant
• Cheap

Cons:
• Pollutes environment every step of the process without proper precautions
• Even with advancements not completely clean
• Nonrenewable

Gregory Boyce is skeptical of global climate change and has big plans for coal.

Despite the fact that coal is known to be one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases, Boyce, 52, is banking on a future in which America burns a lot more of it. With the country’s huge reserves, he argues, coal should be doing much more than its traditional tasks of making electricity or steel. “We’re moving into an era where we’ll be driving our vehicles based on coal-derived fuel. We’re going to be flying on it,” Boyce declares.

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