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There is an alternative. Please peruse http://www.youtube.com/atrilab . Pray Newsweek brings this to the notice of Obama administration in the interest of USA, and humanity.
Newton is a unique scientist whose work remains relevant to humanity after centuries and even for space age travel. He is said to have born on 25 Dec 1642 as per Roman calendar, but Europe reset the date to Jan 4th, 1643 as per Gregorian calendar later on.

Let me share a secret unused by us for the last 300 years. His theories on gravity can help us meet the energy needs of humanity to transport people and goods. Using the approach outlined below transportation is possible at speeds of 210 mph from city to city. Retooled cars/trucks on gravity-powered roads allow for transportation without fossil fuels and transport cargo from any point to any point at 60-mph. Existing metro rail can be powered by gravity doing away the electrical traction.

Detailed specification in US Patent application number: 12184151 dated 07/31/2008 provides more information regarding the "Gravity Powered Rail, Road and Runways transportation systems".
(www.atrilab.com)
The existing roads and rail infrastructure can be primarily powered by gravity attaining speeds of 60 mph.


The implications are gravitational force can provide in case of USA:
1. 360 KMPH rail based intercity transportation saving 87% of electrical energy
2. Urban metros, even existing ones can save 97% of electrical energy
3. Cargo can be moved from any point to any point in USA with gravity power, saving 97% of energy from fossil fuels
4. USA can stop importing 8m barrels of oil daily and stop 3.5b tons of carbon emissions per annum


The projects for USA would need investment of $450 billion, but no subsidy from the government, because they generate 30 to 40% cash surpluses. They generate also close to one million jobs. Eternal free gravity force can kick start projects in all the states for transportation infrastructure to be futuristic, totally powered by gravitational force. Within four years, we can complete the commercial implementation and get benefits, without any need for waiting for research to be completed.

We need a paradigm shift in transportation scene with "green" energy from Newton's gravity and the game changer solution is ready for implementation.

22 FEB 09 Again. You should see the Wind Farm up in the Thumb of Michigan. It is a spectacular sight. We should be building ALL of these components right here around the Great Lakes. Harvest the renewables, People.

Clean coal: nothing but a PR campaign. And why burn it all anyway? We'll need it for plastic and chemicals.

Yeah, if you just take the color out of it, {but still leave the bad vapors and gases}
I would like my clean coal to smell like butterscotch!

IF the big if and when we can find a way to burn coal clean we should use it. We would be stupid not to use an abundant energy supply. If we can mine it without destroying the Appalachian Mountains and polluting the water and environment we should mine it. I believe it can be mined responsibily, I believe we will find a way to burn it clean.

You can't even drill a hole in the ground in Anwar Alaska but down in Ky and WVa. you can blow the tops off mountains and push it all over into a valley and cover a fresh water stream. Its a matter of geography I guess and demographics. If you are an Alaskan mountain or a caribu you will get some protection. If you are an Appalachian Mountain or a Hillbilly you have no chance or rights.

Right now my major concern is not co2. It is hard to concentrate on co2 or global warming when your house is being shaken off its foundation. Its hard to think about co2 when you are choking to death on the dust from the haul road. Its hard to think about anything when the tractor trailer 18 wheel coal trucks keep you up all night. The empty aluminum beds sound like thunder each time the truck hits a pot hole. Coal haul roads have a lot of pot holes especially behind a tree huggers house who is trying to show the world the curse of Mountain Top Removal.

On the plus side when we are just one big platiau we won't be hillbillys anymore. You have to have a hill to live on to be a hillbilly so I guess we are soon to be an extinct species also. Although we don't deserve the same protection as a snail darter or a spotted owl. I guess we can all be Clint Eastwood types or High Plains Drifters when its all level. There is plenty of time for us to worry about the co2 problem. Mountains disappearing in front of your eyes in the hear and now make our problem more immediate in nature.

If you spend all your time on the co2 problem and it's long term effect you don't have to worry about the hear and now. The Ky. and WVa. portion of the Appalachian Mountain Chain will be long gone by the end of this century. Of course the rising sea levels that we thought we would be immune to may be a problem then also since we won't have a mountain to hide on. Still when put in its proper prospective it is hard to get excited over co2 problems in the future when you have watched whole mountains destroyed and whole valleys destroyed in real time.

I am hoping someone will become more intereste in our immediate problem before it's to late. I am confident we will find a cure for the co2 problem. However I don't know how we can heal a whole mountain region after it is blown up and pushed over into the valleys. There is no way to reverse this kind of destruction.

The truth was in the air aroujd the BeiJing Olympics. If you remember they had to stop driving and shut down the smoke stack industry around Beijing until they let the air clear up in order for people to breath. Athlets from around the world wore mask and some brought their own oxygen with them.
Scientigic jargon and theory bought by coal corporations are an assault on anyone intelligence with a High School education. But really all you have to do is look at the air in China and see how clean coal really is. There is no such thing as clean coal as of yet. I believe that it can be burned clean when the right technology is applied. The coal corporations instead of wasting millions on false advertising and madison avenue should put the money into clean coal technology and stop trying to sell a pack of lies. You can't create or maintain a market very long based on a lie.

Wall Street just taught us that !

If Newsweek or some other major news magazine or new agency would do and investigative report on Mountain Top Removal and Hollow Fills the practice would be exposed for what it is. The problem is that Appalachia is so isolated in places and almost land locked. To get to most of the real problem spots you will have a 3-4 hour drive to get to the site. They say you know you are having a bad day when you wake up and find a 60 Minutes crew on your lawn. I believe if the nation could see what the coal corporations are doing to the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky and West Virginia they would be so repulsed by it they would force an end to this practice. The sludge and coal slurry ponds used in the coal washing and cleaning process is just as bad when considering stream contamination.
The problem is with the economy and a two front war knocking about everything else off the news in the visual as well as print media I doubt we will get the situation highlighted until it is to late for Appalachia. Acid rain does not get much attention anymore because the burning of high sulfur coal was prohibited because of the outcry from the people in Canada and the North East. Co2 emissions take center stage now because of all the attention drawn to global warming. Mountain Top Removal will remain a peripheral or back burner issue until some organization draws attention to it at the national level. The deforestation of Appalachia may not be considered as important as the deforestation of the Amazon basin. They say the Amazon forest are the lungs of the planet because they consume co2 and produce oxygen. Albeit the deciduous forest of Appalachia lose their leaves a few months every year I would assume they also absorb co2 spring through late fall. It seems to me we should be saving forest in the U.S proper before we chide the South Americans about cutting their forest down.

America is rich in coal but also rich in technological achievements. If anyone can make coal clean, it is this country. We've heard about carbon capture and sequestration and the problems with it, and I agree, that's not clean coal. Gasifying the coal without carbon emissions is the answer. Bixby Energy Systems is a company in Minnesota that has invented this process. They are gasifying coal with no carbon emissions. That's right, they gasify coal into high quality clean burning natural gas with no carbon emissions from the coal. They don't pollute air or water in their process. The by-product is activated carbon in which they can refine into oil, diesel, jet fuel, gasonline, etc. Bixby has clean coal technology now and it works.

This has been the coal corporation line ever since they started blowing off the tops of mountains down here and covering up valleys. I live in East Kentucky and was born in a coal company house, we had to shop at a coal company store, my father worked over 33 years in the coal mines and died in one.
This is how it is, they tell us we can use the flat land they create for us for housing developments. We could put every sub-prime default mortgage property on the flat land they have already created for us. I have as of yet to see one. They say we can put industrial sites on the flat land they create for us. It takes millions of dollars to develop a piece of flat land for an industrial site. Power, sewage, water, road and sometimes rail has to be developed. You have to b close to major rail and transportation hubs for industry to want to build here. We could fill all the industrial land needs for China with the flat land they have already created for us. I don???t know of any and they won???t let us diversify and lose their labor force anyway.
The artificial flat land you may call beautiful is in the eye of the beholder I guess. They transplant a few Elk from out west to put on this artificial prairie. They don???t like to talk about the 20 or 30 species of native animal that needs a forest that just got their habitat destroyed. The Mountain Top Removal I live under is a blight and an eye sore. It used to be a pristine valley over a mile lone that had mountain grouse, flying squirrel, two spices of tree squirrel, turkey, deer, raccoon, chipmunks, two species of fox, and mountain jacks or jack rabbits along with the standard rabbit. I know I am missing some and not counting the aquatic life that was in that fresh water stream that just got covered up.
All just to try to make the coal corporations competitive with western coal strip jobs. Out west the large, thick seams of coal lay next to the surface and it is low sulfur. You don???t even have to wash most of it. It is cheaper to just push the overburden into a pristine valley than .to put it back on the original contour as was required in the 1977 Surface Mine Act. I want everyone on this site to know that MTR is a relatively new type of strip mining down here in Appalachia. George Bush by executive order changed the rules and regulations of the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining Act for his coal corporation friends that now allow this. The last round of midnight regulation changes he just rushed through will finish us off and allow the coal corporations free reign to destroy the rest of the Appalachian Mountain chain that has a coal seam.
This is the most destructive type of mining ever developed, even more destructive than hydraulic mining that was outlawed years ago.

There is currently a clean coal plant being tested in Alliance, Ohio. Its easy for someone with strong beliefs toward climate change to write a story and pass it as fact, I just hope that others do there own research prior to believing or not believing other people's commentary. see link to B & W clean coal project: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_March_15/ai_n27304016

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process <---- Convert coal to ultra-clean diesel; CO2 is extracted and stored as a byproduct of the process

www.syntroleum.com <-- Fischer-Tropsch being executed in the US of A (not that it matters, Sasol as someone else mentioned has been doing it in South Africa for years)

From wikipedia: "There are investigations underway to reduce CO2 emissions by using solar power to convert waste CO2 into CO from where the FT process can then convert it to hydrocarbons."

I agree with Renegade, I live in Eastern Ky, and work in the coalfields. And I like what strip mining does for the land that couldn't be used for much of anything. People can say how bad it is, but I'm just not seeing it. Like I said my parents live on a reclaimed strip mine and it's beautiful!

So, Renegade, taking all of those things at face value, let me ask: how would you like to have your home's foundation destroyed? How would you like to open your kitchen tap and see black liquid flowing out? How would you like to send your kids to school with 2.8 BILLION gallons of carcinogenic coal goo hanging over their heads, held back by a leaking dirt dam? How would you like you and yours to be menaged EVERY DAY by speeding, overloaded coal trucks? How would you like the hills and hollers where you were born and raised turned into moonscapes?

That's my life in West Virginia. Is THAT alright with you, too? Are West Virginians just not as American as you? Are my grandchildren expendable to you, Renegade?

You pay a per-kilowatt-hour price for your electricity. WE pay a price with our very lives. Does that matter to you, Renegade?

I'll wait for your answer.

It exists. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/21397/?a=f

it exists. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/21397/?a=f