Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste!

This is as appropriate now as it ever was. Especially since the people of Tennessee have such a nice big spill to worry about.

Coal is clean... I eat is for breakfast.

My name is Dick Cheney.

Aren't we trying to stop carbon emissions into the atmosphere? If carbon recovery systems are made viable, then there would be a huge market to open up in recycling the carbon.

Just like steel recycling is surging right now and you can get a lot more the old jalopy of your hogging up the driveway or the garage. Instead of paying someone to haul it off, it is now worth quite a bit of money.

I have a friend who now has two tow trucks and picks up anywhere from 10 to 20 cars a week from people anxious to get rid of an old "not running" heap, and get paid a cool $100 for the thing. Then he takes them to the scrap yard and gets a check for $700 to $900 for the wreck at the steel recovery yard. Do the math and you will soon see what a lucrative business he has gotten going.

He has one person who just spends their day on Craigslist looking for cars and posting ads offering you $100 to get rid of that wreck in your garage or driveway.

I am using this as a metaphor on how carbon recycling can become a big boom.

Are you kidding me? maybe i should use some plutonium for grilling now

Maybe the better question is..."Shouldn't we be cutting back on our demands?"

Neither are acceptable... we have the clean technologies now... Those are archaic and have proved to be hazardous pollutants! We just need to get beyond corporate and government interests and push for clean technologies... people are just signing up for business as usual... come on, let's move forward now... not 15 - 20 years from now...

for more information on coal, Big Coal Industry, and preventing Mountain Top Removal, go to;

www.appvoices.org

We have the technology to be able to convert any carbon based material into energy. How about we begin converting our dead, our waste, etc. The decomposing human body is an extremely toxic thing. After we are buried 6 feet under we continue to damage our earth by emitting all of the hundreds of pollutants which remain in our body.

*gulp*

I can see a coal factory from my house and they ban lead paint in my state.

I've been saying "go nuclear" all along here, but I still doubt the validity of the data.

Proponents may claim that the toxins are so diluted by the environment that there is no problem, however, from the article itself: "And when all food was grown in the area, radiation doses were 50 to 200 percent higher around the coal plants."

That means the food grown around the coal-plant concentrates the radiation! That is a problem as the toxins always concentrate in and impact the most vulnerable parts of a system: there is no protection by dilution.

I'm voting against coal in any form (except maybe in a steam engine in a railroad museum-- I love that.)

My list as of today - going from most preferred to least preferred (although some are not yet economical-which does NOT affect my personal preferences, although it may affect my day-to-day needs):

Wave
Ocean temp gradients- Air temp gradients
Wind
Solar
Geothermal
Nuclear
Petroleum
Ethanol
Coal

Someday I hope there are some new technologies to add to that list.

But can solar, wind, etc really replace the HUGE demand for energy and replace coal or nuclear? I'm not too sure about that!

go team nuclear! swords into ploughshares!

i got my char-coal on, i'm making me some hamburger.

nuclear energy is cheaper,
they say that their's
more than one road that leads to rome.
i know that solar energy is not enough to provide for all our needs.
but really we have to think out side the bun.

hamburger!!

oh yeah and solar. Don't forget solar.

Wind and Water baby!
That's where the good stuff is at.

I will pick my t-shirt based on the colors you use. Honestly we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Nuclear power has so many negative connotations, but coal isn't really an attractive alternative. We need to reduce our energy consumption in all forms in order to benefit anything.

Well, coal causes acid rain, pollution and played a large part in global warming, and nuclear waste kills nearby life and can give you cancer. If you ask me, we should ditch 'em both.