Word: coal
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...work as well. A young writer of striking talent, he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. His stories remain, and these 12 of the best some of them previously published in The Atlantic, convey a deep understanding of life in the small farming hollows, coal mines and river towns of his native West Virginia hills. He evokes on a smaller scale, a local world as nuanced and distinctive as the Dublin of Joyce's Dubliners: the region itself with its hills, rivers, fogs, and wildlife, is a vital presence. Pancake constantly includes owls, opossums...
Another fear about falling oil prices is that they could do more damage to the already faltering efforts to develop alternative energy sources. In West Germany, says Economist Liane Launhardt of Commerzbank, research money for vanguard work on solar energy, coal gasification and synthetic fuel may dry up. France is deeply committed to an ambitious nuclear program, which now generates 39% of the country's electricity. The French want to raise that figure to 70% by 1990, but if oil prices slide, the investment could end up being extremely uneconomical...
...public utility commissions. In terms of new orders, I don't think there'll be a new order in this country for a decade. The economics of the utility companies right now, at least in financial incentives, are not to build new plants. The advantages of nuclear over coal are so modest, and the only advantages are in certain areas of the country anyway, and those advantages are extremely modest compared to the risk...
...Francis found the grave without a search. He stood over it and reconstructed the moment when the child was slipping through his ringers into death. He prayed for a repeal of time so that he might hang himself in the coal bin before picking up the child to change his diaper. Denied that, he prayed for his son's eternal peace in the grave. It was true the boy had not suffered at all in his short life, and he had died too quickly of a cracked neckbone to have felt pain: a sudden twist and it was over...
...wind and water have all been hailed as cheap, renewable and benign alternatives to oil, coal and nuclear plants. Now comes a warning from a bastion of environmentalism, the National Audubon Society, that even ecologically favored, so-called solar sources of energy can have serious drawbacks...