Word: coale
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...film, which opens this week, is being marketed mostly on the box-office clout of its star, Reese Witherspoon. But Nair's hand creates the movie's personality: she fills the film with vibrant costumes and boisterous energy. "Early 19th century London was filthy and cacophonous; it had coal and pigs and s___ on the street," says Nair. "That city we never see onscreen; everything is always genteel drawing rooms. And I wanted you to smell the s___, because I couldn't be dragged to see those genteel, hope-the-guy-proposes-to-me kind of movies...
...example, Kennedy said, because of previously illegal coal burning corporations in the Ohio Valley, asthma has reached an unprecedented level in newborns...
...missed it - and 2007 for households. Peter Claes, president of the International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers in Geneva, points out that liberalization has so far accomplished very little; electricity prices have risen 35-50% in the last year despite it. Yes, production costs have risen - the price of coal has doubled - but Claes points to a lack of competition. "An oligopoly of five big companies controls the market in Germany, France and the Benelux countries," he says, adding that a lack of cross-border capacity makes it hard for companies to shop around for electricity from another country. Even...
...this year to help meet demand. Another problem is finding a cheap way to generate power but still abide by E.U. pollution regulations and the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions. While most countries except France and Finland are phasing out nuclear power, there aren't many attractive alternatives. Coal-fired electricity plants are cheap but notoriously dirty. Natural gas, although cleaner, leaves countries dependent on insecure sources of supply like northern Africa and central Asia. Renewables like windmills and solar panels are part of the solution - the number has grown exponentially in the past five years in Europe...
...Although China now allows coal prices to float freely on the market, the government still sets the price electricity companies must pay for coal. This spring, that figure hovered at just two-thirds of the free-market price. This is meant to make electricity cheaper for consumers, but with so many industries gobbling up coal, many coal companies are loath to supply power plants. As a result, coal reserves held by China's electricity sector were down 40% last month compared with the same period the previous year. One major power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that...