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...promote green energy with minimal costs to consumers. The bill was mostly progressive and earned applause from environmental groups, but there remains one major flaw. In addition to wind, solar, ocean current, geothermic, and hydroelectric power initiatives, Massachusetts is slated to pass incentives for “clean coal?? power plants.One breakthrough provision in Massachusetts’s green energy bill would require a portion of electricity sold in Massachusetts to be derived from “renewable” and “alternative” energy sources. As one such energy source, the bill endorses coal...

Author: By Alice J Gissinger | Title: Coal By Any Other Name | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...challenge, then, for creating cars that run on something other than oil—and, further down the road, generating the bulk of our electricity from something other than coal??is two-fold. We need a renewable energy source that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases. And we need a way of storing that energy in a form that can be driven around. The latter has few viable solutions: despite intense research, battery technology is still relatively poor, and hydrogen has all the disadvantages already discussed. For the former, we have lots of promising, but highly underdeveloped...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Our Hangup with Hydrogen | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

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