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...most notable increase proposed in the R. and D. budget involves the nation's most abundant fuel-coal. Where coal research now gets a relatively small $167.2 million a year (almost twice last year's figure), the report recommends $405 million next year. By fiscal 1979, some $2.18 billion would be spent on such priority projects as taking sulfur out of coal and turning the black mineral into more easily transported and more widely used fossil fuels...
...remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than 70,000 tons of oil shale might be moved daily from mine to processing plant. There, the shale would be crushed and heated to about 950° F. in retorts. The extracted oil would then be refined...
...attorney general of Arkansas said yesterday he would like Harvard's help in determining his position on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed 2800-megawatt coal-burning power plant near Pine Bluff...
...That the proposed AP&L plant, which would burn low-sulfur coal, would probably emit more sulfur dioxide than Arkansas and federal standards permit...
...subdue the earth. In the following century came the boisterous faith in expansion-the push westward, the promise of the industrial revolution and, always, the unrestricted faith in the marketplace. The creative intellect became intoxicated with progress. Henry Adams squinted and foresaw a new American, "the child of incalculable coal power, chemical power, electrical power and radiating energy ... a sort of God compared with any former creature of nature...