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[NMLUG] Why so many Linux distros?
so... , is it apt-get electric?
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Lee Einer wrote:
> John Fleck wrote:
>> On 10/9/06, havoc <havoc@harrisdev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>
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