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"Clean Coal harnesses the awesome power of the word 'clean'!"

Posted February 26, 2009 2:03 PM by Mark Piepkorn
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Given that Coal accounts for more than 30% of carbon monoxide pollution in the world, why are you featuring this energy as a clean green energy? As a green building site we should be looking at renewables--look at the affects of the coal industry in Tennessee?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090223/hearn
Posted 2/26/09 6:51 PM by Laurie Schoeman
Hi Laurie; you should watch the video. It's a satiric "commercial" (directed by the Coen brothers - the guys who did the movies No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and other goodies) that is squarely behind what you're saying. Check out this previous post, too - http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/2008/1...
Posted 2/26/09 7:03 PM by Mark Piepkorn
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