Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Remembered
by Angry White LiberalI’m including this becuase I’m from Michigan…
Deborah Champeau-Felder stood silently as the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald clanged in memory of her father, one of 29 mariners who perished when the ore carrier sank in a vicious Lake Superior storm 30 years ago.
As the sound faded Thursday, she kissed her hand and laid it gently on the bell.
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‘Gasifier’ Promoted As Energy Answer
by Angry White LiberalMachine Designed To Run on Sewage And Garbage
It would be nice to know just what the patent number for this thing is…. And just what are the emissions?
The contraption looked like something that would incite a call to 911. Metal pipes and wires led to a two-story-tall black metal chimney, which led to more metal pipes that were connected to electric motors and high-tech doodads and dials. The inventor, Simon Romana, called the machine a “gasifier” and said it can use garbage or sewage to create pollution-free electricity and drinking water.
“As a native, I’m not a polluter,” said Romana, a member of an indigenous tribe in New Zealand.
Romana said he and his investors, which include members of native American and Canadian tribes, built the demonstration machine for $1 million and trucked it from Canada to the District so diplomats, federal officials and sewage experts could see for themselves. But because of objections from the Rev. Willie F. Wilson, pastor of the church near the demonstration site, the machine was not turned on yesterday.
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U.S. States Say Power Bills Won’t Soar on CO2 Plan
by karma432Ten Northeast states that are hoping to pass legislation cutting greenhouse gas emissions have released a study refuting business claims that the plan would drasticly raise electricity rates.
Businesses who oppose a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in nine Northeastern U.S. states have overestimated how much the plan will raise electric bills, according to a study released by the states Monday.
The study sponsored by the Northeast states showed the plan by nine governors to cut greenhouse emissions would raise electricity rates only between 0.3 and 6.9 percent — not by 23 percent, as a business group had contended.
By the end of the year, the states hope to pass the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent by 2010.
New York Governor George Pataki, a Republican, initiated the plan in a break with President George Bush, who favors voluntary emissions reductions and dropped out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
Are you listening, Mayor O’Malley? We are asking Baltimore to join every other major city in the Northeast by adopting a plan to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. Should you become governor, we will be asking for you to join the Northeast states’ greenhouse gas initiative.