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...respond officially to the letter andmaintains that Seitz's influence in carbon 12development technology has been marginal...
Seitz said he received a patent for his idea in 1975 and proposed manufacturing the diamond, known as carbon 12, to GE in 1987. Scientists at the GE research laboratories responded at the time with lukewarm interest, he said...
...hold the US patent that explicitly teacheshow [to make carbon 12]," says Seitz. "[GE] justup and ran off with it." The "60 Minutes" programwill report that Seitz's patent is cited in the GEpatent, Seitz said...
...reducing the extent to which tax policy influences economic behavior. But another change would tax activities that impose costs on society: a levy on pollutants and greenhouse gases. Larry Summers, an economics professor on leave from Harvard, for example, calculates that a tax directed at halving the growth of carbon dioxide emissions would raise $16 billion a year, while increasing the price of gasoline only about 5 cents a gallon. The tax cut could raise twice as much money and still keep U.S. energy prices below those in Germany and Japan...
Cows are contributing to global warming. To a measurable extent, they are. The symbiotic bacteria that dwell in every cow's gut enable grazers to break down the cellulose in grass. As a by-product, these bacteria produce considerable amounts of methane, which, like carbon dioxide, is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. The methane periodically gusts forth from grazing herds in the form of rumbling postprandial belches. But if cattle contribute to the global methane load, they are hardly alone. Swamps, termite mounds and rice paddies are all hosts to similar sorts of bacterial methane factories...