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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Sep 5, 2008 11:46
Doug wrote:
> For those motorists who dominate this transport newsgroup and fail to
> see a connection between this article and transport here is are some
> hints, power station/electric train/battery charging/hydrogen
> production.
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> "Carbon capture and storage (CCS) aims to reduce the climate impact of
> burning fossil fuels by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power
> station smokestacks and disposing of it underground. Its future
> development has been widely promoted by the coal industry as a
> justification for the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
> However, the technology is largely unproven and will not be ready in
> time to save the climate."
Only one thing *would* save the climate in your world - that's if we all
went back to the stone age.
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John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
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