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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

What are everyone's thought on the coal industries latest ads?  For those 
that haven't seen them, to paraphrase, their goal is to have everyone using 
coal produced electricity.  *New* cleaner burning coal AND the biggy is that 
they are going to "store the CO2."

Ah, and do what with it?  Store it where?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> There are still reputable scientists who question if mankind can
> affect global temperatures enough to make meaningful difference. If
> soil sequestration of carbon is viable, the concept will have to be
> presented in a succinct manner so that it becomes understood and acted
> upon. Right now, way too many words and way too many technical
> statements. My eyes cross.
>
> We all have issues of demanding interest. I do not have time to work
> my way through thousands of--I'm sorry, badly written--words when a
> couple hundred could do the job if the premise is sound. An idea that
> takes a book to present has a long row to hoe before it will gain
> widespread acceptance. If the proponent of an idea wants to sell it,
> they must learn to communicate it well. Otherwise, in the Internet
> Age, they are but one more voice shouting into the winds of
> information overload.