This isn’t an ideological statement whereby I really mean clean coal isn’t clean enough. I mean, the technology claiming that C02 emissions from coal-fired power plants can be captured and stored, is a theory. It doesn’t exist.

“The reality is that there’s not a single home or business in America today powered by clean coal,” said Brian Hardwick of the Alliance for Climate Protection. “If coal really wants to be part of America’s energy future, the industry can start by making a real commitment to eliminating their pollution that is a leading cause of global warming.”

Hardwick continued: “It is high time for the coal industry to come clean and admit to the American people that today clean coal is not a reality. No matter how much they say it in their advertising, coal can’t truly be clean until the plants can capture global warming pollution. With so much at stake, we can’t afford to hang our hats on an illusion.”

this is reality.org

City residents will get a chance to review and comment on a proposed windmill ordinance tonight, more than a month before the Flagstaff City Council does.

If passed, the ordinance could lead to nearly 100-foot-high wind turbines being installed on lots as small as a half-acre in business zones. Currently, the city’s land development code is silent on wind turbines — it doesn’t specifically allow them, nor does it forbid them.

Flagstaff, of course, is a tremendous candidate for both wind and solar. How fantastic would it be if we could produce our own energy right here? We should also take this opportunity to make sure energy needs are addressed on the Navajo and Hopi reservations.

Tonight’s meeting will be held in the City Council Chambers at Flagstaff City Hall from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

This video is pretty amazing news. Electrical trash is increasingly a big problem because of all the nasty metals and chemicals inside. What caught my ear was the bit about electrical trash being masked as “donations.” There are a lot of programs out there dedicated to taking your old computers and giving them to less priviledged societies to be utilized. How do we know who to trust?

It’s happening in China too.

exciting for some, but in this humble writer’s opinion, scary as hell.

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.

The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.

“It’s really part of our civilisation,” Mr Kurzweil explained.

I got this from Auckland’s Burning, who is taking a break from blogging right now.