[NMLUG] Why so many Linux distros?

[Lee at dosmanosjewelry.com (Lee Einer)]

John Fleck wrote:
> On 10/9/06, havoc <havoc@harrisdev.com> wrote:
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> There was testimony at a House Committee hearing last spring
> suggesting that the cost per mile driven would be less - potentially
> substantially less - with plug-in hybrids, both in the direct cost of
> buying electricity versus gasoline and in the indirect cost of
> greenhouse gas emission, even if you trade gasoline in your car for
> coal at the electric power plant. That's consistent with what the
> independent (i.e. not industry-funded) experts told me about the
> technology when I did a story about it for the newspaper last spring.
> 
Coal-burning power plants could be made to be MUCH less polluting if
they would just switch to fluidized bed furnaces using limestone media.
The technology is appallingly simple and has been available since the
1920s. But they won't change, because changing costs money and money you
don't spend you get to keep.

Of course, the indirect cost of greenhouse gas emission is not the only
hidden cost of coal. The cost of black-lung must also be factored in,
along with the cost of the destruction of so many watersheds in
coal-mining country as a result of their shaving off mountaintops and
letting the silt run into the creeks and rivers. Coal is a dirty, dirty
fuel on many levels.

Lee