Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was real promise here, Keller said. Ash and sulfur are the principal pollutants in coal. Without them, the remaining fuel would burn clean, unlike the dirty coal used by many big utility plants in the U.S. If the process Keller was describing could be duplicated on a mass scale, it would provide an attractive alternative...
Smith grew excited. An engineer and refrigeration expert who had installed systems for factories and ice-skating rinks, he had the engineering skills to produce such a clean fuel on an operating scale. "Let's get a patent," Keller suggested. "Start a company...
...meaning "water that has gone away," as a name for their process and their company. They worked nights in a garage on a back road southeast of town, won the patent rights and sold the idea to local investors who shared their conviction that a clean-burning, coal-based fuel was potentially an economic gold mine. They interested possible customers -- big customers like Florida Power & Light, American Electric Power, General Electric, General Motors -- and they raised nearly $8 million through a sale of preferred stock...
Many economic observers and politicians fuel these beliefs by charging that foreigners invest in American companies--particularly high-tech, high-profit companies--and then ship either the jobs or the technology overseas, depending on how devious they are. Most of the jobs apparently come from bread-and-butter industries like auto-building. Most of the technology apparently comes from the electronics or weapons industry...
...Adding fuel to this smoldering wreckage of a movie, an attempt to weave together the two villains--the addition of Christopher Walken as the greedy industialist of Gotham City--Further weighs down the plot but adds little depth...