Word: diesel
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...coal can look and burn like regular coal. The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way. The alchemy that satisfies the IRS is a simple process: some plants spray newly mined coal with diesel fuel, pine-tar resin, limestone, acid or other substances--a practice that industry critics call "spray and pray." Other operators mix coal-mining waste with chemicals, coat it with latex and blend it with untreated coal to form briquettes. (For an earlier story on the scheme, see "The Great Energy...
There are only two males in the packed bus—three if you include the driver, four if you include Vin Diesel on the tiny TV screens. For the most part, the girls on the bus are conservatively dressed, hair prim and shoulder-length or tied up in ponytails. The accessories of choice are gossip rags, shopping bags, and Starbucks cups. The girls in the very back giggle over the child actors in the “The Pacifier.” Other riders chat softly or fiddle with their iPods. The scene could be mistaken for a ride...
...Much like Michael Jordan (athlete), one might say, or Vin Diesel (self-explanatory), or Jesse Ventura (athlete-turned-politician), or Dwight Eisenhower (president)? Donato’s only 36, after all—that’s 10 years younger than Summers when he was named president—and an unadorned pate “gives Coach a little extra age. That might bode well with the office he’d be sitting in. They’d see a nice bald guy—maybe get him some glasses...
...storing large quantities of flammable chemicals in a new science lab being built directly behind the Science Center. Harvard is seeking a permit from the City of Cambridge to house 19,586 cubic feet of flammable gasses, 24,586 pounds of flammable solids, and 1,080 gallons of diesel fuel in the new Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE), set to be completed early next year. The permit process requires that Harvard inform nearby residents in the Agassiz neighborhood of its intent to store dangerous chemicals. “What I want to know is what the bottomline worst...
...area indicated that they would prefer that construction last longer, in exchange for the cessation of Saturday work. The committee also complained about emissions from construction vehicles, which residents have previously protested at neighborhood meetings. Residents demand that Harvard insist that its contractors switch to using low-sulfur diesel fuel for off-road equipment, such as cranes and earthmovers, and ultra-low sulfur fuel in trucks. Lucey said the University has told its contractors to install “scrubbers”, or emissions filters, in the large equipment, which is more effective in reducing emissions than switching...