Word: carbonations
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...coal in power stations, the car basically swaps one fossil fuel for another. And because it's carrying a 400-lb. (180-kg) dead-weight battery, it may even wind up using more fossil fuel and costing more to run than a normal car - with no compensating reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Anton Ziolkowski, Edinburgh
...dismantled just as fast, with little regard for the long-term environmental impact. Productions can be energy-intensive, especially when shooting on location. And actors, no matter how green they claim to be on Entertainment Tonight, are accustomed to a certain level of luxury that carries a certain carbon footprint...
...does watch Hollywood. The TV and film industry tends to be on the cutting edge of social change, from civil rights to the war in Iraq, and that's true when it comes to the environment as well. From films like An Inconvenient Truth to high-profile attempts at carbon neutrality (by the Fox drama 24 last year), Hollywood is working to set the bar higher, bit by bit - who cares if it feels pretty good about itself in the process? And more important, bit by bit, Hollywood is changing social norms. Ideally, someday being green won't be cool...
...crisis might have on his expansive and expensive array of policy proposals, Obama essentially answered, Maybe none. That's defensible in theory, because each of Obama's big ideas could be, in the long run, good for the U.S. economy. Overhauling the energy sector by selling credits to emit carbon could ignite a big new industry around alternative fuels. Reforming the inefficient health-care system could rein in the cost of insurance and allow employers to put more money into wages rather than into benefits. Drastically improving education ought to lead to a more skilled workforce that produces more valuable...
...will have to argue that any new policy program will be an investment in economic growth. Given the budgetary realities, it will be easier to get money through Congress for energy programs that produce tangible results - like building windmills (or nuclear plants) - than for complicated regulatory regimes to control carbon emissions...