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Will Fracking Save Us or Shake Us?

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
What is "fracking?" It's removing natural gas from the ground--and there is LOTS of it right here in the US, so if we produce cars that run on natural gas (as lots of trucks do already), then we can solve our oil dependency problems. HOWEVER, fracking uses LOTS...
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The Coal Conundrum

Thursday, March 20, 2008

While some scientists search desperately for a new fuel to use in cars and power plants that will free us from dependence on Middle Eastern oil while producing fewer emissions, other researchers are trying to find ways to use a fuel we have PLENTY of right here at home: coal.

More than half of the electricity produced in the United...

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Environmental Disaster

Monday, March 19, 2007

The US is facing an environmental disaster because we have too much coal. Although most of our power plants run on coal, burning it releases carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, so this will have to stop soon. The question is: what else can we use?

LiveScience.com reports that, Ernest Moniz, who is one of the world's experts on global...

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